In the most friendly manner they rendered efficient aid in drawing the heavy timber from the forest to the shipyard.

They also brought in abundant food for the supply of the strangers.
Early in the spring of 1614 the "Restless" was launched.

Immediately Captain Block entered upon an exploring tour through what is now called the East River.

He gave the whole river the name of the Hellegat, from a branch of the river Scheldt in East Flanders.

The unpropitious name still adheres to the tumultuous point of whirling eddies where the waters of the sound unite with those of the river.
Coasting along the narrow portion of the sound, he named the land upon his right, which he did not then know to be an island, Metoac or the Land of Shells.