The Reading Room in the Royal Library, 40 Willem Usselinx, 50 Title-page of the _Argonautica Gustaviana_, 62 Axel Oxenstierna, 68 Letter of Peter Spiring, 72 Klas Fleming, 76 Fort Elfsborg near Gothenborg, 80 New Amsterdam, 96 The Research-room in the Royal Library, 102 Landing Place of the Swedes, 108 Finnish Log-cabin, 110 Interior of the Finnish Cabin, 110 An Indian Family, 112 A Delaware Indian Woman, 114 The Budget of New Sweden, 142 Castle at Viborg, 146 The Ship _Scepter_, 150 Tidö Palace, 166 Johan Printz, 174 Storehouse, 180 Bill of Lading, 184 _Sewant_ (wampum), 204 Mora house, 212 Interior of the Mora house or Log-cabin, 214 Water-mill, 216 Indian Testimony, 236 Title-page of the _Geographia Americae_, 254 Swedish Log-cabin, 288 Storehouses from Finland, 300 Peter Stuyvesant, 306 Passport for Peter Lindeström, 338 Queen Christina, 344 PREFACE This volume has been prepared to meet the demands, made from time to time, for a popular edition of THE SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS ON THE DELAWARE. It is essentially an abridgment of the above-named work; yet in some particulars it is a new book. It is popular only in so far that foot notes and bibliographical references have been omitted: nowhere has the statement of fact been sacrificed to the embellishment of language.