The ships having been prepared for the return voyage in the spring departed from the colony about April 14 with some homeward bound people (including Johan Papegoja) and large cargoes of beaver and otter skins. The vessels went by way of Portugal, where a quantity of salt was loaded into the _Swan_, and about the end of July they anchored in the harbor of Gothenburg. The documents, letters and reports from the colony reached Stockholm overland August 1. The cargoes of peltries and salt were brought to the capital in the ships to be sold there and the council of State resolved that the salt should be duty free. Peter H. Ridder returned from the colony with the ships. He was employed by the government in various undertakings and important missions for over a score of years. In 1669 he retired to northeastern Finland in the capacity of commander of Viborg Castle and died there about 1691. III. Since the _Fama_ and the _Swan_ carried no cargo to New Sweden for the Indian trade, it was planned to send out a new expedition at an early date and preparations were under way before the ships sailed in November. Admiral Fleming (assisted by Beier, Kramer, Schottingen, Trotzig and Spiring) was untiring in his activity, giving orders and directing the work. Trotzig bought provisions and goods in Holland for several thousand florins, Schottingen purchased cloth, ready-made clothes, shoes, stockings and the like in Gothenburg, and Beier and Kramer procured axes, saws, mill-stones, cloth and such things in Stockholm. [Illustration: Castle at Viborg, Finland, over which Peter H. Ridder was made commander in 1669. See _The Swedish Settlements_, II, p. 692. (Photographed by the author in July, 1909.)] As usual it was difficult to find emigrants and the council again decided to send timber thieves and game poachers to America. Johan Papegoja, who had concluded to return, hired a number of soldiers in the autumn. The barber-surgeon Hans Janeke was engaged at this time, and he was given 60 D. for the preparation of his medicine chest. It appears that two or three colonists came from Finland, and Johan Matsson and the noblemen Knut and Per Liljehök were among the passengers.