The next day, Stuyvesant issued chiefs, who departed content. an order banishing the Esopus prisoners to Curacoa " to be em ployed there, or at Buenaire, with the negroes in the company's service." Two or three of the prisoners only were retained at
Fort Amsterdam, to be punished " as proper."
it
should be thought
i
Meanwhile Ensign Smith pushed hostilities with
vigor.
On
the 30th of May, guided by one of his prisoners, a force under " at the second fall of Kit Davit's his command discovered, x
kil,"
about twelve miles west from the Hudson, a few Indians
The stream being swollen,
planting corn on the opposite' bank.
was found impossible to cross, so he returned to the village, where he learned that the Indians had concentrated their force " at an almost inaccessible spot about twenty-seven miles up the the it was above-mentioned where river, beyond fall, pretty easy " to ford the kil. Thither Smith directed his force, but the it
Indians received notice of his approach by the barking of their dogs, and fled, leaving behind
them Preummaker, " the oldest
their chiefs." The aged sachem met his foes " with the haughty demand, u What do ye here, ye dogs ? aiming
and best of
He was easily disarmed, and a an arrow at them as he spoke. u As it he held to as how should be disposed of. ^consultation Sager's kil, now called the Esopus " The second fall " was the small creek.