by Harmen van den Bogaert, edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Stern

In 1634, the Dutch West India Company was anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three employees far into Iroquois country to investigate. Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert led the expedition from Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY). His is the earliest known description of the interior of what is today New York State and its seventeenth-century native inhabitants. 

Available from the New Netherland Institute for $20. To order email   nni@newnetherlandinstitute.org