The outhouses, and crops DeVries and his colonists, however, escaped into the manor house or fort, which had been constructed with loop-holes for musketry, and were standing on their defense, when an Indian whom DeVries had" sheltered on the morning not escape the general calamity.

and cattle were destroyed.

of the massacre came up to the besiegers, related the occurrence and told them DeVries was "a good chief." The Indians at once raised the siege, and expressed their regret that they had destroyed the cattle ; they would let the little brewery of their

Dutch friends stand, although they longed for the copper kettle to make barbs for their arrows. 1 The Dutch were thrown into great consternation and fled to Fort Amsterdam for protection, with bitter upbraidings on their He met them defiantly at first, and lips against the director. professed to have been controlled by the wishes of Andriaensen ; but the latter denied the assertion, and carried his determination to escape the popular condemnation into an attempt upon the life

of the director. 2

But the accumulating evidences of desolation

brought ruler and people to repentance.

For that mercy which

he had refused to extend to the helpless Indians, Kieft besought the people to ask of the Most High, and to that end appointed a day of fasting and prayer, in his proclamation

confessing that

them was doubtless owing While people had committed.

the calamities which had overtaken to the

sins

which he and

his

the latter humbled themselves before God, they had little