For the next few installments we’ll be delving into the pages of the Tovernboak itself as they’re being read by Owen. This week it’s front matter with an introductory letter written to New Amsterdam’s sixth Director General, Peter Stuyvesant, by Sarah Rapalje, whom we met in a previous installment. Her intention was to pass the Parelzaad and the account of what it did to Stuyvesant so he could protect the colony from the encroaching English. The following begins the account.
