neighboring chiefs to secure a permanent peace.

Sewackenamo called his warriors together to know their wishes. " We will The chief fight no more," was the brief reply. next assembled the squaws, and inquired " what seemed to them " That we best?" These our fields in

answered, plant peace He then assembled the young men, who urged him to make peace with the Dutch, and declared that " The they would not kill either hog or fowl any more."

and

live in quiet."

sachem then proceeded to Gamoenapa to secure the assistance of the sachems of the Hackinsacks and Tappans in procuring a cessation of hostilities.

While there a runner brought to him

the intelligence of the death of Preummaker, which so unmanned

him that cc he knew not what to do." friends

to

negotiate for him,

Leaving his Hackinsack

he returned to his people with a

heavy heart. Oritarty, of the Hackinsacks, bore the peace belts which were

committed to him to Fort Amsterdam, and presented them to the director on the 2d of June.

Stuyvesant assured him tfyat

" It is the Dutch were disposed for friendship. very strange, then," said the old sachem, whose notions of warfare differed somewhat from his hearers, " that your people were so recently

engaged against the Indians, and have slain their aged chief." Stuyvesant replied, that it was customary among white men to exert all their strength until they had conquered a peace. Oritany then requested a suspension of hostilities while negotiations To this Stuyvesant consented with for peace were in progress. the proviso that the sachem should go at once to Esopus, ac companied by a Dutch interpreter, and learn for himself the