II. About the fifteenth of March the two little ships of the Swedes, the _Kalmar Nyckel_ and the _Fogel Grip_, appeared in the bay. “Nature was sleeping”, the trees were bare, and the loveliness which summer imparts to the Delaware shores was absent; but, if the legend be true, the beauty of the region in spite of its disadvantages impressed the pioneers, who landed at a particularly charming spot, which they called the Paradise Point. From there the ships undoubtedly proceeded with the first favorable wind. Arriving at the mouth of the Minquas Kill, Minuit turned westward into this stream. He sailed up as far as present Wilmington, casting anchor before “a wharf of stones,” where the fortress was later built. Indians had pitched their wig-wams there, and it was particularly suitable for a landing place. The Swedish salute of two guns was given, and Peter Minuit went ashore with some of his men. Thereupon the director accompanied by Sandelin, Lucassen, Måns Kling and some soldiers, made a journey up the Minquas Kill for several miles in the sloop to reconnoitre and to establish connections with the Indians. He also went some distance on foot into the woods with his followers, but “saw no sign of Christian people.” Soon after Minuit’s return to the ships several Indian chiefs, probably with a large following, appeared, attracted by the reports of the Swedish cannon. A conference about the sale of land was immediately arranged. Small gifts were distributed to the chiefs, and they “were asked if they were willing to sell the [Minquas] River and as many day’s journey of the land lying about it as would be requested. This the chiefs agreed to with the common consent of the different Indian Nations.” On the twenty-ninth of March, 1638, five sachems, Mattahorn, Mitatsimint, Erupacken (probably the same as Elupacken), Mahomen and Chiton, “appointed by the whole assembly”, were invited into Minuit’s cabin on the _Kalmar Nyckel_, where they sold as much “of the land in all parts and places of the river, up the river and on both sides, as Minuit desired.” Deeds were prepared in Dutch and their contents were explained to the Indians by Andreas Lucassen, the interpreter. “For value received in merchandise the Indians ceded and transferred the title of the land with all its jurisdictions and rights to the Swedish Florida Company under the protection of the great Princess, Virgin and Elected Queen of the Swedes, Goths and Wends.” When the Indian chiefs had traced their totem marks on the documents, and Peter Minuit, Måns Kling, Henrick Huygen, Andreas Lucassen and Jacob Evertssen Sandelin had signed their names below, the merchandise specified in the contracts was distributed among the Indians, who in turn, to legalize the sale, presented beaver skins and _sewant_ to the Swedes. The deeds are now lost, but the extent of the purchase can be ascertained from other documents.