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His name was Norss; broad were his shoulders, his cheeks were ruddy, his hair was fair and long, his body betokened strength, and good-nature shone from his blue eyes and lurked about the corners of his mouth. "Where are you going?" asked his neighbor Jans, the forge-master. "I am going sailing for a wife," said Norss. "For a wife, indeed!" cried Jans. "And why go you to seek her in foreign lands?
Close upon the time when the Jans farm was given away by Governor Van Twiller, a sailor of note, who had visited almost every country in the world, founded a colony on Staten Island. This sailor was Captain David Pietersen De Vries. Staten Island attracted him because of its beauty.
It was closed only about a month before his death. His coadjutor in this work, was the late Chancellor Walworth, of Saratoga, whose ancestors were also in the line of Anneke Jans. Dr. Delamater was born in Columbia county, New York, near Chatham, on the State line of Massachusetts, April 18th, 1787.
This set has been copied so many times that even the most expert must fail in trying to identify the date of reproduction. Two hundred and thirty times this set is known to have been reproduced, and such talented weavers were given the task as Jans and Lefebvre.
I design to make my way to Nuremberg, and shall then place her in the hands of my good friend Jans Boerhoff, whose wife and daughters will, I am sure, gladly receive and care for her until the time, which I hope is not far off, that peace be made and you can again rejoin her."
Rotten wood is expressly forbid to be burnt in the preparation of food, but Jans Haven had brought some pieces in a sledge along with the rest of the fuel; the Esquimaux, to whom the sledge belonged, had carefully picked it out and thrown it away, and the conjurer was informed that in this also he was mistaken.
All the preparations being finished, the building was begun in 1782 at the new station, and Jans Haven was employed as first architect. On the 21st September of that year it was finished so as to be habitable. This settlement, which is thirty German miles south of Nain, and lies in 55 deg. 40 m.
Jans Haven commences a new station at Okkak received joyfully by the natives six Esquimaux baptized proceedings at Nain. Missionary accompanies the Esquimaux to a rein-deer hunt. Third settlement Hopedale founded. Remarkable preservation of the Missionaries.
The captain came several times and shook me and swore I was shamming, but I only answered in a whisper and seemed as faint as a girl. All this time the Potomac was making good way, and was running fast down the coast of South America. The air was getting cool and fresh. "'I tink, Jans said one evening to me, 'dat dis not go on much much longer. De crew getting desperate.
After a time I made shift to turn it round, and saw old Jans sitting on a chest mending a jacket. I called him, but my voice was so low I hardly seemed to hear it myself. "'Ah, my leetle boy! he said, 'I am glad to hear you speak again. Two whole weeks you say nothing except talk nonsense. "'Have I been ill? I asked. "'You haf been vera bad, he said.
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