by the servants of the company, then (1640) going to the South river to trade, and who landed on the island to take in wood and water ; " but, as Kieft professed to believe, by the Indians. He accused the Raritans of the offense, and, on the sixteenth of July, commissioned Secretary Van Tienhoven to proceed, with one hundred men, to their territory and demand satisfaction.

The Raritans denied the commission of the offense,

and satisfied the secretary ; but the troops under him were bent

on mischief, and scarcely had he left them when they made an attack, killed several of the Indians, took one of their chiefs

De Fries, New York Historial Society

Collections,

ad series, i, 263 j Breeden

Racdt, Documentary History y iv, 101, 102.

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captive,

and mangled

retaliated by attacking

the body of another.

De Vries's plantation,

The Raritans killed four of his

burned his dwelling and tobacco house. Kieft followed with a proclamation announcing the policy of exter mination, and offering a bounty of ten fathoms of wampum for planters and

the head of every Raritan

which should be brought to him.

Holding their own grievances in abeyance,

some of the Long

Island warriors took up the hatchet against the Raritans, and brought in at least one head for the director's gratification, but the great body of the Indians refused the tempting offer.

Meanwhile the Weckquaesgeek boy had grown to manhood, and determined to exact

long meditated atonement for

his