must return home weeping."

" Out of respect for the intercession of Stuyvesant replied our friends here present, we consent to a peace, if the :

Mo

all

hawks and Minsis, and all the other chiefs will be security that shall be faithfully observed."

it

The Mohawk chief, Adogbegnewalquo, then addressed the " The whole Esopus chiefs country is now convened in be :

half of you, who began this quarrel, to procure you peace. 1

At a later period the Mohawks considered the causes of the Esopus war, and

"all their zaakemaakers (sachems) lay the cause of the war on

reported that

If

us," the Dutch, and this was also the verdiet of the

Katskill Indians.

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THE INDIAN TRIBES

this

be once concluded, break

and treat us with contempt,

it

not again.

If ye do break it

we sljall never again intercede for *

you."

The Minsi sachem, Onderis Hocque, then addressed the " Ye must not renew this neither quarrel

Esopus sachems

:

;

Whatever ye want, must or earn. Live with the Dutch as brothers. purchase ye Ye cause us and the Mohawks great losses. This is not your

kill

horse nor cow, nor steal any property.

land.

It

is

our land.

Therefore repeat not this, 1 but throw

down the hatchet. Tread it so deep into the earth that it shall never be taken up again." He then presented them with a white belt, and, turning to the Dutch, he warned them not to renew this trouble, nor to beat the Esopus Indians in the face and then laugh at them. Then taking an axe from the Esopus sachem, he cast it on the ground, and trampled it in the earth " Now saying, they will never commence this quarrel anew."