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."

Sewackenamo, the Esopus sachem, then arose and addressed " The hatchet have we to be taken

the assembly

permitted

:

from our hands ; and to be trodden

in the ground.

We will

never take it up again."

At the conclusion of these ceremonies, Stuyvesant submitted the following as the conditions of the treaty

" i. All hostilities shall cease on both

:

sides, and all injuries

shall be mutually forgiven and forgotten.

u 2. The Esopus

Indians, in compensation of damages, promise to transfer to the director-general all the lands of Esopus, and to directly depart thence without being permitted to return thither to plant

"3. Further, the director-general promises to pay for the ransom of the captive Christians eight hundred schepels of maize, the half next harvest when the maize is ripe, the other half, or value, in the harvest of the following year. "4. The Esopus Indians promise that they will keep this peace inviolate, and will not kill any more of our horses, cattle

its

Should such occurrence happen, then the chiefs oblige themselves to pay for it, or by refusal, that one of them shall remain arrested until the killed animal shall be paid for or made