another mountain, but as the Dutch had had quite enough of marching, and as it had become apparent that the Indians were

of their movements, they returned to the castle. In the afternoon the corn-fields were cut down, and the maize

fully advised

and beans, which had been preserved in pits, were destroyed. Three days were spent in ravaging the country. " Nearly one " hundred morgens (two hundred and fifteen acres) of maize " were cut down, and above a hundred pits of corn and beans"

On the morning of the 3ist, the castle and all the houses were set on fire, " and while they were in full blaze," burned.

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the Dutch marched out in good order, and returned to Wiltwyck.

The settlers now engaged in harvesting their grain, and the soldiers guarded them while at work, which was prosecuted day One Davids and night. Rumors of another attack were rife.

arrived from Manhattan, with a letter from Couwenhoven, who

had been sent down to the Dans-kammer in a sloop to nego tiate with the Indians, and who wrote that four hundred men

were preparing to attack the fort that the Indians " who lay there about on the river side made a great uproar every night, the woods rang again." firing guns and kinte-kaying, so that Davids himself had been on shore and slept one night with the ;

who had four captives with them, one of whom, a female, informed him that the Indians were in force watching the reapers on the Great plot, and waiting opportunity to attack Indians,