had escaped from Hudson's vessel now came out with many others, armed with bows and arrows, expecting to betray them."" But, says J act the mate of Pludson's vessel, "we perceived their intent, and suffered none of them to enter our ship, whereupon two canoes full of men \s-ith bows and arrows shot at us after our stern, in recompense whereof we discharged six muslcets and killed two or three of them ; then above one hundred of them came to a point of land to shoot at us, then, I shot a falcon at them and killed two of them : whereupon the rest fled into the woods. Yet they manned off another canoe with nine or ten men, which came to meet us; so I shot at it also a falcon, and shot it through and killed one of them, then our men with muskets killed three or four more of them, so they went their way."^

It was here, too, that during the absence of the illustrious Peter Stuyvesant, who was then occupied in reducing the Swedish fortress on the Delaware, a body of nine hundred Indians having crossed the river, came and landed at "Spiteing Devil" creek. Here they posted themselves, and remained until they were apprised of his return."

The waters of the kill or channel, derive their name from a daring Dutch burgher of the ISIanhattans, who, bent upon performing some deed of knight errantly, determined upon crossing this stream in a \'iolent storm, in opposition to the rem-onstrances of his friends; swearing he would swim across "en spyt den duyvel," (in spite of the de\'il), but scarcely had he reached the channel when he was overM'helmed by the stormy billows and sank to rise no more.