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to strike his flag. They pulled down the tent, sent
the goods on board ship, and sounded their trum-
pets in the boat "in disgrace of the English."
The Dutch boarded the William, weighed her
anchor, and convoyed her down the river with their
fleet, and finally dismissed her at the mouth of the
river.

The troubles of the Dutch with their English
neighbors, however, did not end with these aggres-
sions on the Hudson and similar acts on the Dela-
ware. In the year 1614, Adriaen Block, a great
navigator whose name deserves to rank with that
of Hudson, had sailed through the East River, and
putting boldly across Long Island Sound, had dis-
covered the Housatonic and Connecticut rivers.
He also discovered and gave his own name to
Block Island and explored Narragansett Bay,
whence he took his course to Cape Cod. These
discoveries reported to the States-General of the
United Netherlands caused their High Mighti-
nesses at once to lay claim to the new lands; but
before they could secure enough colonists to occupy
the country, restless pioneers of English stock
planted towns in the Connecticut valley, along the
Sound, and on the shore of Long Island. These
were uncomfortable neighbors with aggressive