Loud shrieks first announced to DeVries, who was watching at Fort Amsterdam, that the slaughter had begun, but these shrieks were succeeded by the stolid indifference with which the red man always met his fate, and nothing was heard but the report of fire-arms. Neither age nor sex were spared. Warrior and squaw, sachem and chief, mother and babe, were alike massacred. DeVries describes the terrible tragedy in Children were taken from the arms of their pointed language. mothers and butchered in the presence of their parents, and

" Other mangled limbs thrown into the fire or the water. sucklings had been fastened to little boards, and in this position Some were thrown in the river, and they were cut to pieces. their

when the parents rushed in to save them, the soldiers prevented

The next landing and let parents and children drown." morning some of the Indians, who had escaped the midnight

their

slaughter, came to the fort begging for shelter, but instead of receiving it, were killed in cold blood or thrown into the river.

Continues DeVries, " some came running to us from the coun having their hands cut off; some lost both arms and legs ; some were supporting their entrails with their hands, while others were mangled in other horrid ways, to.o horrid to be conceived. try,

And these miserable wretches, as well as many of the Dutch, were all the time under the impression that the attack had pro ceeded from their Indian enemies " were unwilling to believe that