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,

a

man named Tyman Bouwensen

but ; it prudent, during the continuance of hostilities, to remove the Dutch families to Fort Amsterdam, and to direct the garrison at Fort Orange to

Minuit deemed

finally to

This

revenge on the

observe strict neutrality in the future.

Precisely to what extent the Indians in the vicinity o*f Fort Amsterdam were

supplied

with arms in

1643, does not

It is said by the Eight Men, appear. in October of that year : " These Indians

are, on the contrary, strong and mighty ; have, one with the other, made alliances with seven different tribes, well supplied with guns, powder and ball." (Colonial History , i, 190) ; yet there is not a single case of the use of fire arms by the InEven in their most dians recorded. desperate defenses bows and arrows are alone spoken of as their weapons.

OF HUDSON'S RWER. cattle,

without sparing even the horses."

In 1626, a Wecknephew, who was a by on their way to the while and another savage, boy," fort to trade, were met and robbed by men in the employ of