[23] “Soldaterne ... som dock på sistone alle giorde sigh Rebellyske och goffwe sigh alle dhe 1,000 dieflar, som i Helwete bor, at dhee icke skulle ståå, fast dhee wille partera dhem i 1,000 styken.” Signed statement of Gyllengren, Rev. Hiort, Peter Lindeström and others, August 31, 1655, enclosed with letter to E. Oxenstierna. The document was discovered by Dr. Malmsten in _Kammararkivet_ during the author’s visit to Stockholm in 1909. It is now preserved in _Ox. Saml._ (R.A.) [24] Lindeström accuses Skute of capitulating without consulting the other officers and relates how he and Gyllengren gave the soldiers a barrel of beer and put them to work on the fortifications, while Skute was conferring with Stuyvesant. At four in the afternoon the work on the fort was ready to withstand an attack of the enemy, but then Skute had already surrendered and all was lost. _Geogr._, pp. 225–30. [25] Lindeström says: “Gafs Hollenskt lösen på Fort Treefaldigheet, sedan swarades uthi lägret, och på Skieppen, thereafter strax låssades heela umgången på Fort Treeefaldigheet samt uthanwärket, suarades så åter medh alle styckene I lägret och omgång (erne) på Skippen.” _Geogr._, p. 231. [26] Upland, Finland and Tinicum. [27] Elswick was compelled to wait for two hours before the interview was granted as Skute was on board discussing the terms of capitulation. [28] It is probable that he offended the Dutch in some way. Lindeström says: “And what words he spoke against the Dutch (för nähr talat och fäldt hafwer), one cannot really know, [but] he was seized and brought on board the ship _Amsterdams Waag_ and there locked into heavy chains.” Bogaert says: “The 13th was taken prisoner the Lieutenant of Fort Crist[ina], with a drummer, it being supposed that he had come as a spy upon the army, in consequence of the drummer’s having no drum.” [29] The batteries, according to Lindeström, were made from sod and protected by gabions and breastworks. They were called “Slangenborg.” [30] These batteries were built out of logs, protected by breast works and gabions. This battery which was nearest the fort (see the map in the author’s _Swedish Settlements_, II, 602–603) was called “Myggenborgh,” because there was “such a fearful amount of mosquitoes there.” [31] The batteries were built of logs, filled in with earth and covered with sod. On account of the large number of rats there, it was called “Rottenbourgh.” [32] The kitchen (see map) was enclosed in a fortified square. [33] “Hausset nu die Hollender sehr übell mit Todtschlagung des Vihes, und plündrung der Heüsser aussen fünr dieser Fortresse.” Elswich’s _Relation_. [34] Rising was accompanied by Von Elswick and Stuyvesant by the Vice-Governor of New Netherland, De Sille. Elswick’s _Relation_. There is no mention of this meeting in Rising’s _Journal_.