As the wind was favorable the following morning (Trinity Sunday) Rising gave orders to proceed. In a council which was held on board it was decided that they “should try at this opportunity [to gain possession of Fort Casimir], yet without force and hostility but with proper remonstrances ... of their rights.” At about eleven o’clock the ship anchored before the Dutch fort, whereupon Rising sent Captain Sven Skute and Lieutenant Elias Gyllengren ashore “with three files of Musketeers” to demand the surrender of the stronghold. Commander Bicker, who saw the uselessness of resistance, met the Swedes on the shore, “welcomed [them] as friends, and brought Sven Skute into the fort” for a conference. Skute presented the Swedish rights to the land and fort, “promising Bicker, his soldiers and colonists all liberty and good offers,” if he would capitulate without resistance. Bicker, however, desiring a little time for consultation, “sent Van Tienhoven on board the _Örn_ with three others to request three days delay.” In the meantime Gyllengren marched his soldiers into the fort, as the gates were open and poorly guarded. “When the Hollanders wanted to use their guns,” they were told to put them down again, “and thus the Swedes took possession of Fort Casimir without hostility.” A Swedish flag, taken from the _Örn_, was then raised above the fort instead of the Dutch, which, it is said, “Bicker caused his own boy to haul down.” Thereupon another salute was fired from the _Örn_, answered by the guns of the fort. The name was changed to Fort Trinity “because it was taken on Trinity Sunday,” and Lieutenant Gyllengren with some soldiers was ordered to remain there. Twenty-one houses surrounded the fortress, some of which were occupied by freemen. The fort at the time of its surrender was garrisoned by nine soldiers, and armed with thirteen cannon; but there was no powder and the muskets were with the gunsmith. After the capture the conditions were read to the Dutch, upon which they would be taken under the protection of the Swedish crown. “They were well satisfied with their remonstrance,” promising to appear at the earliest opportunity before the Swedish council to swear their oath of allegiance. On May 22 the _Örn_ arrived at Christina. About a month and a half later the ship was ready to return to Sweden, and on July 15, the sails were loosened from the yards, and opened to invite the breeze. The return voyage was a long and dangerous one. The ship went to St. Martin for repairs, thence to Firth, and arrived at Gothenburg about July 24. II.