Every advantage was taken by the Dutch. The Indians were employed as servants, and defrauded of their wages they were induced to drink, and while intoxicated were robbed of their furs or of the goods which they had purchased ; they had standing complaint in regard to the sale of arms at Beaverthe streets.

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wyck, and found cause of grievance in the value which the Dutch attached to the lands which they had sold, which led

them to believe that they had not been paid a sufficient price

The Minsis were especially aggrieved, and when for them. the Swedes made their appearance on the South river and offered them arms and ammunition in exchange for their furs, their con tempt for the Dutch was openly expressed. The Dutch, on the other hand, protested their innocence of the causes of complaint charged against them, and made up in their own justification. quite a formidable bill of grievances The Indians " without any cause," so far as they knew, had

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not only slain and killed many animals, such as cows, horses and hogs," to the immigrants belonging, but had " cruelly mur dered ten persons," one in the second year after the peace had

been concluded, one in the year 1651, four in the year 1652, The mur three in the year 1653, and one in the year 1654. derers had been demanded under the treaty of 1645, but the Indians had refused to give them up, and the government,