Excerpt from A Maid of Old Manhattan A sudden restless movement of relief among the Whites was plain evidence that they had nigh reached the end of their patience. For days the parley had been in progress, and they seemed no nearer their desire. The Dutchmen sought gold! Kieft, the Old governor of Nieuw Amsterdam had found it; but he had gone down with his ship carrying the secret of its whereabouts with him. Gossip had it that the Indians to the North knew Where it was, and they were there, a handful of desperate men, to solve the riddle of its hiding-place. They sought gold and, now that they felt it within their grasp, they were not minded to be balked of their reward by the stolid stubbornness of the painted savages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.