[Illustration: Black-and-gold decorative book cover illustration featuring a colonial-era figure walking with a cane, framed by ornate patterns; above, a harbor scene labeled “Nieuw Amsterdam” with a sailing ship, windmill, and clustered buildings along the shoreline.] [Illustration: Endpaper] [Illustration: “AS THEY DEFILED THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL GATE THAT STOOD AT THE HEAD OF WALL STREET.” _Frontispiece._ ] =Van Twiller Edition= =Knickerbocker’s History of New York= =By= =Washington Irving= =With Illustrations by Edward W. Kemble= =Vol. II.= G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 27 West Twenty-third St. 24 Bedford Street, Strand =The Knickerbocker Press= 1894 COPYRIGHT, 1893 BY G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS =A History of New York= =From the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing, among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong; the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam, being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been or Ever Will Be Published= =by= =Diedrich Knickerbocker= =De waarheid die in duister lag, Die komt mit klaarheid aan den dug= [Illustration: Black-and-white illustration of a young girl in traditional dress, standing with hands in her apron pockets, wearing a fitted bodice, short-sleeved blouse, and a full skirt with a patterned hem.] Contents. BOOK IV.—(_Continued._)