not permit us to remain here

Even ye are

tired

with waiting,

occasion

Wisachganio ; Hackinsacks, Oritany, Cars-

Mohawks, Adogbegnewalquo, Requesecade, Ogknekeltj Mahicans, Aepjin, Aupamut; ATfltt^7/,Kefe-weig,Machacknemenu; Minsis, Onderis Hocque, Kas-

'Callatanghj Staten island, Warehan. ghan, n, 419. Stuyvesant carefully avoided allusion to the immediate cause of the war, which had already been fixed against the Dutch.

were

chiefs

this

:

kongeritschage 5 Wappingcrs, Isseschahya,

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. and are as willing to depart as we.

We request you to remem

Comrminicate them

ber these our words.

to all the other sachems^our brothers, and to all the Indians our friends, and tell them, as we have done before, that they must not meddle with the Esopus savages, nor suffer them to live among them. And now tell the Esopus savages we will yet wait till evening. c< When yonder sun goes down, we depart if they be Brothers :

not here."

The sachems received this address with alarm, and imme diately sent out messengers to the Esopus chiefs, urging them to

Towards evening Kaelcop, Sewackenamo, and Nasbabowan, Pemmyraweck appeared before the gate of the village. Immediately on their arrival, a grand council of

attend the council.

all

the inhabitants of Esopus,

held.

both Christians and Indians, was

The Esopus sachems and the sachems of the tribes in

" under the blue attendance, and the villagers, being seated sky of heaven," Stuyvesant signified that he was ready to hear the Esopus chiefs. Whereupon Onderis Hocque, of the Minsis, arose and thus addressed the assembly :