He also writes--That the Indians who lay thereabout on the river side made a great uproar every night, firing guns and kintekaying,? so that the woods rang again ; and he hoped to be with me in two days.--His letter contains divers other circumstances. Christoffel Davids informs us, that he slept one night with the Indians in their wigwams --that some Esopus Indians and Sachems were there who had four Christian captives with them, one of whom, a female | captive, had secretly told him, Davids, that forty Esopus Indians had already been near our fort to observe the reapers and the other people. Whereupon the Council] of war resolved to send for the Sheriff, who being come, an order was handed him directing him to warn all the Inhabitants not to go from the fort into the fields without a suitable escort, as directed in the preceding Ordinance of the 4th August. Said Christoffel: Davids

1 Six miles north of Newburgh, Orange co. Ep.

2 The Delaware word, Gent'kch'n, to dance, seems to be engrafted here into the Dutch language. The term is also to be found in Van der Donck's Beschryvinge van Nieuw Nederlandt, where speaking of the amusements of the Indians, he says--' The old and middle aged conclude with smoking and the young with

'a Kintecaw." N. Y. Hist. Coll. 2d Ser. i. 204. Again in the Breeden

Raedt we read, '' The first of these Savages having received a frightful wound, desired them to permit him to dance what is called the Kinte Kaeye, a religious custom observed among them before death. . . . ... He thenordered him to be taken out of the fort and the Soldiers bringing him to the Beavers path. (he dancing the Kinte Kaeye all the time). Ep.