But if any wrong be committed against them they think it long tiU they be revenged and should any one against whom they liave a grudge, be peaceably walkbig in the woods or going along in his sloop, even after a lapse of time, they Avill slay him, though they are sure it will cost them their lives on the spot, so highly prized is vengeance among tJiem.

40 FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

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ofNewNcth- enquiry it is lound, tiiat tney have a cliief in time of war, named Sacjaina, [Sachem] but above him is a greater Sacjama (pointing to Heaven) who rules the sun and moon. When they wage war against each other, they fortify their tribe or nation with palisades, serving them for a Fort, and saUy out the one against the other. They have a tree in the centre, on which they place sentinels to observe the enemy and discharge arrows. None are exempt in war, but the Priests, and the women who carry their husband's arrows and food. The meat they eat consists of game and fish ; but the bread is cakes baked fore-father's fasliion, in the aslies ; they almost all eat that in war. They are a Avicked, bad people, very fierce in arms. Thir dogs are small. When the Hon'^i® Lambrecht van Twenhuyzen, once a skipper' , had given them a big dog, and it was presented to them on ship-board, tliey were very much afraid of it; calling it, also, a Sachem of dogs, being the biggest. The dog, tied with a rope on board, was very furious against them, they being clad like beasts witli skins, fur he thought tliey were game ; but when they gave him some of their bread made of Indian corn, which grows there, he learned to distinguish tliem, that they were men.