The general (Montagne) remarked that

nothing else was to be done, and resolved, with Sergeant Major Underbill, to set the huts on fire, whereupon the Indians tried every means to escape, not succeeding in which they returned

back to the flames, preferring to perish by the fire than to die by

Massacre of the Weckquaesgeeks.

What was most wonderful is, that among this vast collection of men, women and children, not one was heard to our hands.

According to the report of the Indians them cry or to scream. selves the number then destroyed exceeded five hundred j some

among whom there were also twentyour God having collected together the're the to celebrate one of their festivals, 1 greater part of our enemies from which escaped no more than eight men in all, of whom

say full seven hundred, five IVappingers,

even those were severely wounded."

The Indians had doubtless assembled

for their annual festival of the first moon

The work of sword and

following that at the end of February.

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of fire having been completed in a manner so satisfactory to the equally pious Monto Stamford the returned bearing with them expedition tagne, reached Fort the force fifteen wounded. days after,

humane and Christian Underhill and the

Two

Amsterdam, where joy bells rang their welcome. The Indians now solicited peace, and a treaty was brought

about through the intervention of Underhill. Mamaranack, chief of the Sint-Sings^ Mongockonone of the Weckquaesgeeks, Pappenoharrow from the Nochpeems, and the Wappingers from Stamford, presented themselves at Fort Amsterdam, in the early part of April, 1644, and having pledged themselves that they