The offense was more so than by the To appease them, Eelkins was discharged, and Mai?icons. in further overture to them, Krieckbeck, the Dutch apparently commander at Fort Orange, in 1626, joined them, with six men, on a hostile expedition against the Mohawks.* Other causes of grievance were not wanting. The sale of fire-arms to the Mahlcans and Mohawks at Fort Orange and forty fathoms of

wampum had been exacted.

resented by

the tribes, and by none

all

the refusal to sell to the chieftaincies in the vicinity of Fort

sterdam 4 was a constant

to allay which the

irritation,

Am

Dutch

traders treated the Indians at the latter place with great fami them to their liarity, invited them to their houses, admitted

and gave them wine,

tables,

civilities as their

until

they

came

to

due and to resent their absence.

regard such Then the

Dutch roamed at large, " without a herdsman," frequently came into the corn of the Indians, which was

cattle of the

and "

unfenced on led to

all sides,

complaints on

committing great damage there. their part and

Wassenaar, Documentary History , in, The location of this fort has never been positively ascertained. 35.

Wassenaar, Documentary History t

m,

45 j Brodhead, i, 146, 1 68.

Brodhcad,

was not

i,

168.

The

expedition

Krieckbeck and men were killed, and the

successful.

three of his

The Mohawks

Mahicans put

to flight.

did not resent

the alliance further than

to roast and eat one of the Dutch soldiers,