In 1634, the Dutch West India Company was anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three employees far Into Iroquois Country to investigate.
Van den Bogaert was a keen observer, and his Journal is not onl.
His is the earliest known description of the interior of what is today New York State and its seventeenth-century native inhabitants.
Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert led the expEdition from Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY).
In 1634, the Dutch West India Company was anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three employees far Into Iroquois Country to investigate