given as to the mode to be observed in attacking the Indians ; they then marched forward towards the houses, being three

rows set up street fashion, each eighty paces long, in a low recess of the mountain, affording complete shelter from the north-west wind. The moon was then at the full, and threw a strong light against the mountain so that many winter days were not brighter than it then was. arriving there the In

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dians were wide awake, and on their guard ; so that ours deter

mined to charge and surround the houses sword in hand. They demeaned themselves as soldiers and deployed in small bands,

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The first of these savages having received a frightful wound, desired them to permit him to dance what is called the kinte-kaye, a religious use observed among them before death j he received,

however, so many wounds, that he dropped down dead. The soldiers then cut strips from the other's body, beginning at the calves, up the back, over the shoulders and down to the knees. While this was going forward Director Kieft and

Jan De la Montagne, a Frenchman, stood laughing heartily at

his councillor,

the fun, and rubbing his right arm, so

much delight he took in such

scenes,

He then ordered him to be taken out of

the fort, and the soldiers bringing him to the beaver's path (he dancing the kintekaye all the time), threw him down, cut thrust them into mouth while still alive, and at last, placing him on a millstone, cut off his * * There stood at the head. same time some twenty-four or twentyoff his partes genitales, his