The time being come many obstacles arose and operations were postponed until the year 1642, when it was resolved to avenge the perpetrated outrage. Thereupon spies looked up the Indians who lay in their Village suspecting nothing, and eighty men were detailed under the command of Ensign Hendrick Van Dyck and sent thither. The guide being come with the troops in the neighborhood of the Indian Wigwams lost his way in consequence of the darkness of the night. The Ensign became impatient, and turned back without having accomplished any thing. The journey, however, was not without effect, for the Indians who remarked by the trail made by our people in marching that

. they had narrowly escaped discovery, sought for peace which was granted them on condition that they should. either deliver up the murderer or inflict justice themselves ; this they promised but. without any result.

Some weeks after this Miantenimo, principal Sachem of Sloops

. bay? came here with one hundred men, passing through all. the Indian Villages} soliciting them to a general War against. both the English and the Duteh,t whereupon some of the neighbouring Indians attempted to set our powder on fire and to poison the Director or to inchant him by their devilry, as their ill will was afterwards made manifest as well in fact as by report. Those of Hackingsack, otherwise called Achter Col, had, with their neighbours killed an Englishman, a servant of one David Pietersen,

* Note B. Their answer and resolution dated the 29th August, 1641. 1 Narragansetts. ;