up, with the hope of making a permanent treaty, but the sa chems refused to meet him. conference was finally held on

of December, and the Indians persuaded to bring in some supplies in exchange for powder ; but they refused to make

the

1 8th

peace, denounced the truce which had been

binding authority, and retained

their

made

as

without

young prisoners, having

killed all the others.

In the spring of 1660, peace having been concluded with the Wappingers, against the

Stuyvesant determined upon active hostilities Esopus cantons ; but the latter, shorn to a large

extent of their allies, were not disposed to continue the contest,

and accordingly secured the intercession of Goethals, the chief sachem of the Wappingers, that they might be included in the treaty which had been made with that tribe. Stuyvesant .

doubted their sincerity, and Goethals replied " The Indians the Dutch." He assured Stuyvesant that say the same of and other Esopus sachems were anx Kaelcop, Pemmyraweck, :

was only the kalebackers x who were but that the chiefs would make them

ious for peace, and that

not inclined to treat,

it

Indians who possessed guns were called kalebackers y and were generally the

most idle and vicious of the Indian peopie.

De Lact.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. come in.

" What

if the kalesecurity can there be for peace, backers desire war ?" asked the director, but Goethals could not

Stuyvesant then told him that the Esopus chiefs must him at Fort Amsterdam, if they desired peace. " They are too much frightened and dare not come," was the reply. Believing this to be true, Stuyvesant consented to visit Esopus and hold a conference with the Indians. While these negotiations were in progress, Ensign Smith was