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.

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also informed us,--that the Indians had on shore several bowls and gourds with brandy, which they obtained daily from the Sloops, as the Indians had informed him they could get as much as they required and whatever powder and lead they wanted. Now, we cannot determine what this may amount to, but this I understand that the woman who is on board the sloop with Lieutenant Couwenhoven brought four ankers of brandy with her from the Manhatans, but none of it came ashore here.

20th ditto, Lietenant Couwenhoven arrived with the yacht at the Redoubt; brings a Christian woman and boy with him ; says he gave about Eighty guilders for the youth, and promised to give our captive Squaw for the woman. Left ninety guilders in pledge for her; the Council of War disapproved of his having promised the Se in exchange as such was not contained in the Director General and Council's Instruction to him. Says, the Indians promised him to bring in, within two days, all the prisoners they had, and that he should return with her to them within that time. Says also, that two Mohawks coming from fort Orange in a canoe passed his yacht in the Wappingers Kill. They had full four hundred pounds of lead 'and over three hundred pounds of powder in the canoe.