Show OUR DEBT TO THE DUTCH america owes more to nick van stan than it can pay one never reads in american colonial history of the dutchman seeking gold like he spaniards Qs english inen remarks his licad was too and liis eye too clear excelling as farmers yet even as traders the dutch laid the foundations of the commercial ru prelacy of new york by inherited instincts rc enforced by wise policy and large ideas they gave points not only as to fish fur and wampum to their neighbors down cast quickest to catch customers alicy sent out agents among the indians forestalling the fur and other crops incomparable as is the modern lidston drummer hu is but the evolution of the dutch bosloper bos loper or wood ranger who scoured the forests for trade with perfection of dress and manners irresistible in tongue brainy and resourceful always as is our commercial tourist in this columbian year he probably docs not proportionately excel the skillful bos loper who in the seventeenth century scoured the indian villages along the mohawk and even to duluth |