Note 28 — Chapter VIII · The Colony Under Rising and Papegoja, 1653–1655.

It is probable that he offended the Dutch in some way. Lindeström says: “And what words he spoke against the Dutch (för nähr talat och fäldt hafwer), one cannot really know, [but] he was seized and brought on board the ship Amsterdams Waag and there locked into heavy chains.” Bogaert says: “The 13th was taken prisoner the Lieutenant of Fort Crist[ina], with a drummer, it being supposed that he had come as a spy upon the army, in consequence of the drummer’s having no drum.”