We know nothing of this.'

'

;

THE INDIAN TRIBES

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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

and

other friends," so that they might use in safety the cans, rivers and the roads ; that as they had thanked hirn for making

" make peace, he solicited that they should peace with the Minsis and cultivate it," that the Dutch " might use that

the road to them in safety ;" that he would now give them a whole keg full of powder, but that it " ought not to be used against the Minsis," but against the distant enemies from whom they captured the beaver ; that he had forbidden the Dutch to

maltreat any of the Indians, and that if the latter caught them " to beat them on the head until doing so, they were at liberty

could no longer be seen where their eyes stood."

it

The price

of cloth, however, he could not regulate, as it was brought from

"

beyond the great lake." With these assurances the chiefs departed to renew their conflict with their savage foes.

Three years of tranquillity succeeded the peace of 1660, during which the settlement at Esopus continued to increase in A new village was organized on the north-eastern population.