132 DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE HUDSON

region to which the charter granted, by King James
gave it a claim. It formally protested in 1621
against these "Dutch intruders." Whereupon
King James I directed Sir Dudley Carleton, his
ambassador at The Hague, to protest against the
Dutch settlements; but nothing was accomplished,
both parties having their hands too full with Euro-
pean quarrels to carry these transatlantic matters
to extremities. The tension, however, was con-
stantly increased on both sides by a series of en-
croachments and provocations.

In April, 1633, for example, the ship William
arrived at Fort Amsterdam under command of
Captain Trevor, with Jacob Eelkens as super-
cargo. Eelkens had been dismissed by the West
India Company from the post of Commissary at
Fort Orange, and was now in the service of some
London merchants, in whose behalf he had come*
as he told the Director, to buy furs on Henry
Hudson's River.

"Don't talk to me of Henry Hudson's River!"
replied Van Twiller, "it is the River Mauritius."
He then called for the commission of Eelkens, who
refused to show i't, saying that he was within the
dominions of the English King, and a servant of
His Majesty, and asking the Dutch Council what