In the morning at the dawn of day set fire to the fort and all the houses, and while they were in full blaze marched out in good order, Capt Lieutenant Couwenhoven forming the van cuard, Lieutenant Stilwil's Company the centre, and I with my company the rear guard. . So arrived in safety at our fort about 9 o'clock in the evening with our cannon and wagons. Remarked scarcely anything on the way. The road or course from Wildwyck to the fort of the Esopus Indians lies mostly south west, about 10 [Dutch] miles from our fort.

1st August. ' In the morning heard two shots from the Redoubt on the river side. Sent off Ensign Christiaen Niessen with 50 men. dle found there the Hon>!¢ Company's yacht in which the Heer Secretary van Ruyven had come. Had him escorted to the Village of Wildwyck, and did nothing more as it was a day of Fasting and Prayer.

24 ditto. Nothing occurred as it rained during the whole day and night.

34 ditto. The Heer Secretary departed on his return,to the Manhatans, accompanied by Lieutenant Couwenhoven and the Indians being 41 in the whole, who would not remain any longer ; also 5 of the Honb!e Company's Negroes. Through great intercession and promise of better behavior in future, the Council of

- war pardoned Jan Hendricksen the faults committed by him and he is released from confinement Meanwhile I had two parties inthe field with the reapers and one in Ambush. They saw nothing and returned in the evening. I this day sold, by public beat of drum, the three horses which we had brought with us from the Indians' fort.