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

in jugglery.

De Vries purchased from the Tappans

a tract of about five

April,

;

hundred acres in

made settlement thereon

the subsequent year, and gave to it the name of Vriesendael.

Myndert Myndertsen Van der Horst

" within purchased and located on a tract an hour's walk of Vricsendael." His plantation extended from Archer Cul bay north towards Tappan, and included The the valley of the Hackinsack river. head quarters of the settlement were about five or six hundred paces from the principal village of the Hackinsacks.

the murdered

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man as the price of peace.

Persuaded by De

Vries, who became answerable for their safe return, the chiefs visited the fort with him, and there repeated their offer.

Kieft refused to accept the wampum, and demanded the mur The chiefs could not comply ; the murderer had sought

derer.

refuge among the Tankitekes, and besides he was the son of a chief and could not be surrendered. They then renewed their expiatory offer, but it was again refused, and they returned to their homes hopeless of effecting reconciliation.