" showed no

however, signs of submission," and a new expedi tion was sent out against them. This expedition consisted of a force of one hundred and two soldiers, forty- six Marsapequas antl six freemen. Leaving Wiltwyck on the ist of October,

arrived at the castle destroyed on the 2d. The Indians had, returned to it and the of their dead thrown bodies meanwhile, it

comrades into five pits, from which u the wolves had rooted up

Lower down on

and devoured some of them.

the kil four

other pits were found containing bodies ; and further on, three In dians with a squaw and child that lay unburied and almost wholly

terrible picture devoured by the ravens and the wolves." of desolation was spread out on either hand, where but a month

before the Indian

lords had

Dutch completed

the

The The remains of

exulted in their strength.

work of destruction.

the castle were pulled down, the wigwams burned, and all the

O'Callaghan

says the

Indians

were

but the facts do not In the attack warrant the conclusion. of 1 659, "the savages, estimated at four or five hundred warriors, harassed the virtually destroyed,

Dutch day and night j"

in that of 1663,

" their numbers were estimated at about two hundred." Their losses subsequently could not have reduced them to the sixty The Dutch had no confidence stated. in such a state of facts, for they relaxed

none of their vigilance.

*

THE INDIAN TRIBES

maize which had been