The gun at the mill-gate was cleared and discharged with effect, and the settlers coming in from the fields, soon drove the In dians out. By evening all was still again, and the bereaved in habitants kept mournful watch, during the night, along the bas tions

and curtains.

were wounded, and was "

village

one

Twenty-one lives were lost, nine persons forty-five

entirely destroyed, except a

rick, and a

little

The new new uncovered barn^

carried ofF captives.

stack of seed," and in the old village of

Wiltwyck twelve houses were burned.

scene after the Indians had retreated

:

Writes Bloom, 3 of the

" There

lay the burnt and

slaughtered bodies, together with those wounded by bullets and

Documentary History, iv, 39. Documentary History, iv, 42, 44.

s

Documentary History, in, 962.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

The last agonies and the moans and lamentations of I have been in their midst, and dreadful to hear. were many have gone into their houses and along the roads, to speak a word axes.

danger of being shot by the In

in season, and that not without

The

bodies were most frightful to behold. woman lay burnt, with her child at her side, as if she were just dians.

burnt

delivered, of which I

Other women lay The houses were converted into

was a living witness.

burnt also in their houses.

We

c are made heaps of stones, so that I might say with Micah, ' in his forth wail desolate ;' Mid with Jeremiah, piteous may go our in in all souls have slain The Indians distress.' twenty-four