beaver, and that it may be understood and henceforward be a rule, that we shall receive thirty yards of black and sixty yards

of white zeawan for one beaver. erto.

Ye have been sleeping hith

We We have a

With these three beavers we now open your eyes.

require sixty handsful of powder for one beaver. vast deal of trouble collecting beavers through the

enemy's

We ask to be furnished with powder and ball.

country.

If

our enemies conquer us, where will ye then obtain beavers ?

" Ye have included us and the

Mohawks, and the Mabicans in

Set now at liberty the Indians ye have are sometimes obliged to pass taken prisoners there. by It is good that brothers live that path. The together in peace.

the peace of Esopus.

We

French Indians meet the Mabicans near the Cohoes. Brothers

regret. to mourn.

:

We are united by a chain

This our speech

from your slumbers. your conclusions.

This we

ye too ought

designed merely to rouse you

We shall return next spring to receive

Warn the Dutch not to beat the Indians

otherwise they will say,

is

;

O* Callaghan^ n, 421, etc.

'

We know nothing of this.'

'

;

THE INDIAN TRIBES

"

for the first Stuyvesant replied, that when the chiefs were, time at the Manhattans, some two or three years ago," the tobacco was forgotten, but a roll would now be given to them

to make them

remember their agreement when they returned " made peace with the In dians at Esopus, at the solicitation of the Mohawks, the Mabito their own country ; that he had