The substance of this entertaining book--which relates the fortunes of a company of German adventurers bound for the land of promise, with the design of forming a colony there--is evidently no fiction. It is impossible to read many pages without perceiving that the author is telling what he must himself have seen, known, and suffered--so minute and circumstantial is the narrative: and as he is gifted with considerable powers of observing and describing, the reality of his work renders it extremely life-like and engaging. Any true account--and such, in the main, this undoubtedly is--of what befals the exiles from Europe in their attempts to settle in the New World, will always have a certain…
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