View of New Amsterdam (now New York), ca. 1670.
The Dutch fleet arrived in Ferryland, Newfoundland from New Amsterdam, which
they had successfully recaptured from the British in July 1673.
From Frank C. Bowen, The Sea: It's History and Romance to 1697, vol. I
(London: B.F. Stevens & Brown, 1924-1926) 269. Original in Arnoldus Montanus,
De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, of Beschrijving van America (Amsterdam: 1671).
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