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.

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THE INDIAN TRIBES

maize which had been

left

was cut up and cast

into the kil.

Thence marching down the kil, " several large wigwams" were

" divers maize found, as well as plantations," which were also destroyed.

The expedition then returned to Wiltwyck.

Negotiations for the release of the captives still remaining in the hands of the Indians were again opened. On the 5th of

November, one of the chiefs agreed to return them in ten days, by Couwenhoven, whose On the yth, two children sloop remained at the Dans-kammer. were brought in by a Wappinger chief, who accompanied them for which purpose a truce was granted

as a friend and' who promised to bring in a

whom he had purchased.

This

captive woman woman he brought in on the

3th, and received in exchange a Wapplnger, called Splitnose, and one of the captive squaws and her child. On the 2Qth, the Wappinger again appeared and after satisfying himself that

of the Indians in the hands of the Dutch none had died, said that six of the captives held by the Indians were then at the river side ; that the* seventh