attempt to place them under tribute, but this attempt appears to have been abandoned. De Vries 3 had settled among the latter, after the

disaster

which

him on Staten

befel

kindly treatment had won their confidence. however, forced them to take up the hatchet.

and by Circumstances, island,

Contrary to the

advice of the director, and in .opposition to the wishes of a ma jority of the Hackinsacks^ one Myndert Van der Horst pur chased a tract near Communipaw and made settlement thereon.

While visiting this settlement a Hackinsack warrior became in toxicated, and was robbed of his beaver-skin coat.

stupor passed off

When the

and he became conscious of the imposition

which had been practiced upon him, he vowed he would go home for his bow and arrows and shoot the " roguish Swanne" kin (as the Dutch were called), who had taken his things, and he keep his vow. Watching his opportunity, he shot one of the colonists, Garret Jansen Van Voorst, as he was

faithfully did

thatching the roof of one of

Van der Horst's

houses.

The

chiefs of his tribe, anxious to keep unbroken friendly relations Vries to secure his counsel and with the Dutch, hastened to

De

They dared not go to Fort Amsterdam for fear Kieft would keep them prisoners, but they were willing to make " the " blood atonement of money customary among the tribes,

intercession.

and offered two hundred fathoms of wampum* to the family of

HubbarcTs Indian JVars^ 44. The superstitious fears of the Dutch and the English were alike strongly worked upon by the skill of the Indians