Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-10-03
A NEW CONTINENT.
The Remarkable Narrative Related
By Maloca Claesz of an Unknown
Land.

While at El Paso last week l
accidentally made the acquaintance
| ola man who gave me his name as
Maloca Claesz. He could not
speak the English language. He
said something to me in the Hol-
land tongue, but with such al
peculiar accent that it was with
difficulty dat l understood him.
He used the Spanish language
better, although quite impersectly,
but could readily converse with
him in that language.
| became somewhat interested
in him, and on inquiring
his nativity was informed by him
that he was born in the land Nolu-
combo, but that he was Of Dutch de-
| scent. 1 had him spell the word for
me.
Never having heard of such land,
l made my inquiries more explicit,
and drew from him remarkably
strange story, which ! will proceed
to narrate after brief description
of the person in question. lie is,
I should judge, about thirty-twc
years of age, six feet in height, has
brown hair, inclined to curl-large
blush grey eyes-skin fair, not so
dark as the Spaniard nor So white
as the ,Netherlander, well-propor-
toned physically, compact and
muscular, and 4 head on his shout
ders so nicely balanced and SEEM
ingly SO well developed that Prot.
Fowler would certainly write him
6 and 7 on his chart should his era
mum ever pass under his phreno-
logical fingers.
| lie began by presuming that l
was acquainted with the history OF
Holland and that, undoubtedly, ]
had read of one Of that nations
great navigators by the name of Oil
yer Van Mort.
This Van Mort" said he,
"was the chief officer, or admiral 4,
in command of a squadron of ves-
sells that sailed from Holland about
two years after the Bible was print
ed" and here he dove into some
inner pocket and produced an old
Bible, printed by the authority Of
the Pope at Amsterdam, Holland
A. D., 1896.
The Bible contained the names
of twelve generations of Claesz,
commencing with Jacob Claesz and
ending with Maloca ClaesZ, follow
ing each other in Eneal descent
from father to son, with date OF
birth and death in so many differ
ent handwritings; there were no
> dates of marriage or Of collateral
branches offamilies. I give you the
second birth as it appears in this
: antique Bible translated into En-.
glish:
"John Claesz was born A. y.
r 1912, at Below, son Of Jacob Cha
esq.," The day of the year is not
mentioned in any of these entries.
e The reason of my possessing thi'
book" he continued, "is that an
the oldest son of my father, as he
q was of his, and so on for numbe,
of generations, as there are only
four of these old Bibles belongin!
u to our whole race, from Jacob Cla
IS esz down, and they are now inner
tied by the oldest sons of tina
branch of the family that possess
: them.
n Jacob Claesz was my grea
grandparent, and was in comman,
of one of the ships of Van Mort
Q squadron, as vice admiral, whicl
}. left Holland some two or thre
years after this Bible was publish
ed. So runs this story as it has al
l. ways been told me. They starte,
Y for the Indies by the way of som
+ strait, or passage, that | have for
gotten the name of.
"While anchored there some dill
,. ficulty arose between my forefathe
, and Van Noort-just what | hay
never learned-in consequence c
10 which my great grandparent wa
set ashore in wild and desolat
country, with nothing but his gu
:, and q small quantity Of ammun'
~ ton to protect himself with agains
Is savages and ferocious animals. Al
other was placed in charge of hi
ship, which as l remember, wa
8 called the Hendrick Frederick.
h "After wandering along the coa'
Is of this Indictment country for some
thing like two weeks, and Will
seated on a cliff near a small ba
&c well protected from the sea he di'
nc covered q distant sail. 1t WI
: nearly shutdown, and a furious
" looking gale was fast rising to tn
y. westward, which must of necessit
Y drive the vessel on to the beech m
- far distant from him, unless ST.
or should find anchorage i'll this ba,
as With all the energy he possesss
as he fastened to build a huge bonfi
of at the point of entrance to it, al
= kept it well supplied with fuel III
~ til the vessel, seeing it, made ga
OF entry into its harbor.
er "He hailed her, and to his gre
establishment learned that it W
no less than the Hendrick Ere