A  better  day  dawned  on  New  Netherland  when  the  brave


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and  honest  Stuyvesant,  recently  the  vice-director  of  Curasao,
wounded  in  the  West  Indies,  in  the  attack  on  St.  Martin,  a
Boldier  of  experience,  a  scholar  of  some  learning,  was  promoted
for  his  services,  and,  in  May,  1647,  entered  on  the  government
of  the  province.  The  superseded  governor  embarked  for  Eu-
rope ;  but  the  large  and  richly  laden  ship  in  which  he  sailed
was  dashed  in  pieces  on  the  coast  of  Wales,  and  the  man  of
blood  was  buried  beneath  the  waves.
