Every year the farmers and their families came with their wagons filled with what they had raised to pay the patroon for the use of the land. He set them a great feast, and there was merrymaking all day long. [Sidenote: =A wicked Indian war=] The growth of New Netherland attracted bad men as well as good men. Some mean traders robbed and murdered a number of Indians not of the Five Nations. The Indians robbed and murdered in return. War broke out, and before it ended many settlements were broken up, and hundreds of settlers killed. Parties of Indians roved day and night over Manhattan Island, killing the Dutch even in sight of Fort Amsterdam. The people blamed their governor, Kieft, and threatened to arrest him and send him to Holland. He finally made peace with the Indians just before the new governor arrived. SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL =The Leading Facts.= _1._ Henry Hudson, searching for a shorter route to India, discovered the river which now bears his name. _2._ Dutch traders built trading posts throughout the region, made a treaty with the Indians, purchased Manhattan Island, and built the town of New Amsterdam. =Study Questions.= _1._ Tell the story of Henry Hudson and the _Half Moon_. _2._ What was the fate of Hudson? _3._ When was a trading post planted on Manhattan? _4._ Make a mental picture of the treaty with the Indians. _5._ How did the Dutch treatment of the Indians compare with the Spanish? _6._ What three things did Peter Minuit do? _7._ Who were the patroons? =Suggested Readings.= HUDSON: Williams, _Stories from Early New York History_, 1-4, 32-36; Wright, _Children's Stories in American History_, 292-299; Griffis, _Romance of Discovery_, 233-245. FAMOUS PEOPLE IN EARLY VIRGINIA JOHN SMITH THE SAVIOR OF VIRGINIA, AND POCAHONTAS ITS GOOD ANGEL =37. The First Permanent English Settlement.= Raleigh had made it impossible for Englishmen to forget America. They sent out ships every year to trade with the Indians. In 1606 a great company was formed of London merchants and other rich men to plant a colony in Virginia. [Illustration: THE SITE OF JAMESTOWN _After a drawing made early in the nineteenth century by an English traveler, Catherine C. Hopley_] [Sidenote: =Raleigh's wish comes true=] King James gave them a charter, ministers preached sermons about Virginia, and poets sang her praises. At Christmas time one of Raleigh's old sea captains, Newport, sailed with a colony of more than one hundred settlers. They went by way of the West Indies, and the Spaniards, although watching, did not dare to attack them. [Illustration: JOHN SMITH _From an engraving made by Simon van Pass, in 1614, on the margin of Smith's map of "New England" in "A Description of New England." This shows him at the age of thirty-seven_] [Sidenote: =Jamestown settled, 1607=]