If we speak to them of God it appears to them like a dream, and we are compelled to speak of Him not under the name of Manetto, whom they know and serve -- for that would be blasphemous-- but under that of some great person, yea of the chiefs Sackiema, by which name they -- living without a king -- call those who have command of many hundreds among them, In striking conand who, by our people, are called Saekemakers.7' trast with this stern but undoubtedly just view of the Indian, as a social individual, is the lofty and magnanimous tribute paid to his character in its broader aspect by Cadwallader Golden after more than a century of European occupation of the country and intercourse with him. In his " History of the Five Indian Nations," published in 1727, Golden says : " A poor, barbarous people, under the darkest ignorance, and yet a bright and noble genius shines through these dark clouds. None of the great Roman heroes have discovered as great love of country, or a greater contempt of death, than these barbarians Indeed, I think have done when life and liberty came in competition. are the fiercest They . . . Romans. the outdone have Indians our and most formidable people in North America, and at the same time as politic and judicious as can well be conceived." Although exterminating wars were waged between the Dutch and the Westchester Indians, in which both sides were perfectly rapacious, it was the general policy of the Dutch to deal with the natives amicablv and to attain their great object, the acquirement of the land, by the forms of purchase, with such incidental concessions of the subThe goods given in exstance as might be required by circumstances. chanoe for the lands comprised a variety of useful articles, such as ammunition, with trintools! hatchets, kettles, cloth, firearms, and ble rum.