" At the approach of these formidable warriors of a braver Huron race, the more numerous but cowering Algonquins crowded together in despair, begging assistance of the Dutch. Kieft seized the moment for an exterminating massacre. In vain was it fortold that the ruin would light upon the Dutch themselves. In the stillness of a dark winter's night, the soldiers at the fort, joined by freebooters from Dutch privateers, and led by a guide who knew every by-path and nook where the

a Armeperahin, supposed to be the west branch of the Sprain river, which nows in the rear of Dobb'S Ferry. b O'CaUagban'a nist. N. x. p. 249, 50.

c O'Callaghan's Hisr. N. N. p. 264.--" I have been told," says Coldon, " by old men in New England, who remember the time when the Mohawks made war on their Indians, that as soon as a single Mohawk was discovered in the country, these Indians raised a cry from hill to hill, 4 A Mohawk 1 a Mohawk 1' upon which they all fled like sheep before wolves," without attempting to make the least resistance, whatever odds were on their side," Ac-- Col Jen's Hist. Five Xations, 3, 4.

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savages nestled, crossed the Hudson," (into Pavonia, New Jersey, whither the" unsuspecting Weckquaskecks and Tappaens had fled from Manhattan,) "for the purpose of destruction. The naked and unsuspecting tribes could offer little resistance ; the noise of musketry mingled with the yell of the victims. Nearly a hundred perished in the carnage. Day-break did not end its horrors; men might be seen, mangled and helpless, suffering from cold and hunger ; children were tossed into the stream, and as their parents plunged to their rescue, the soldiers prevented their landing, that both child and parent might drown."11 Beside these, thirty more were murdered at Corlaers Hook, on Manhattan Island, while sunk in repose.