Thus Stuyvesant himself was to monopolize the trade, which was extremely lucrative; for the Indians would pay almost any price for guns, powder and shot.

This increased the growing dissatisfaction.

The Indians would readily exchange skins to the amount of forty dollars for a gun, and of four dollars for a pound of powder.
"The governor," it was said, "assumes to be everything.

He establishes shops for himself and does the business of the whole country.

He is a brewer and has breweries.