ment, and the fact that such alliance secured the friendship of the "great sachem." Tranquillity was soon established, and although the Mohawks and the Mahicans and Abenaquis, at the east, and the Senecas and Minsis, at the south, continued their struggle, the conflict was not around the centres of civilization.

Gradually the Minsis, more

immediately represented

on the

Hudson, yielded to the

superior advantages possessed by their or to the inducements which the English offered ; while enemies,

those more remote made common cause with the French.

O.P HUDSON'S

RIPER.

The annual renewal of the treaty with the Esopus Indians, required

by its terms, was delayed until October, 1665, when,

as their intercourse in the future was to be with the English, the

treaty was rewritten in the English language, with such changes in its terms as the change in government required, 1 as appears

from its text

:

" An

agreement made between Richard Nichols, Esq., Go under his Royall Highness the duke of York, and the vernor, Sachems and People called the Sopes Indians :

" That no act of on

either part,

hostility shall at

any time bee committed

or if any damage shall

to

happen

either party to the Corn, Cattle, Horses,. Hoggs,

be done by

Houses, or any

other goods whatever of the other party, from the goods of the other party shall return be given upon demand for the same.

" 2. That if any Christian

shall wilfully kill an Indyan, or a hee shall bee put to death. And the Christian, any Indyan said Sachems do promise on their part, to bring any such Indyan