So they passed along.

And though the Dutch threatened them hard yet they shot not.

Coming to their place they clapped up their house quickly, and landed their provisions, and left the company appointed, and sent the bark home, and afterward palisaded their house about, and fortified themselves better." Van Twiller, informed of this intrusion, sent a commissioner, protesting against this conduct and ordering Holmes to depart, with all his people.

Holmes replied, "I am here in the name of the king of England, and here I shall remain." Matters soon became seriously complicated.

A boat's crew was robbed and murdered by some vagabond Indians.