had been given to them were not worth the touch, and that At the request of De Vries, they could be no longer pacified. the sachem accompanied him to Fort Amsterdam, where, on repeating his complaint, Kieft replied that he should cause his

young Indians who wanted war, to be shot. Kieft then offered him two hundred fathoms of wampum, but the sachem spurned the bribe, and, after promising to do his best to pacify his people,

went his way.

With the renewal of difficulties in New England, in Septem ber (1643), war again broke out at

New Amsterdam.

"

Pachem,

a crafty man, ran through all the villages, urging the Indians to

a general massacre." The first aggressive act was by the Wappingersf who seized a boat coming from Fort Orange, killed two men and

Others

took four hundred beaver skins.

" so that

they seized two boats more," but were driven off, with the loss of six of their number, in followed this example,

De Pries, ColO'Callaghan i, 277. New York Historical Society, ad It will be observed that series, I, 270. neither the Ffeckquaesgeeks or Manhattans are mentioned in the treaty, a fact which indicates the local character of both titles,

lections

Doc. Hist., iv, i z.

The Dutch were

surprised at the attack by the affingers, and protested that they had never had any

trouble

with them.

mistaken, nearly all tribe.

In

this

they were

the testimony shows that their troubles were with that as

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