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. He would have them on board but they would not; so they passed by. The Dutch woman, who had been taken prisoner, was brought to bed of a young daughter on entering the Esopus Kill. Nothing occurred during the day as it rained almost incessantly, and the farmers could not go out in the fields to reap or to bring in the grain.

21st ditto. The Council of War resolved to send Lieutenant Couwenhoven down again with the Sloop. I victualled the yacht and gave him five Soldiers additional for his defence ; also resolved to give him the two Indians and the Squaw which we had prisoners, but he is not to leave them out of his hands before we-have our prisoners back. Furnished him also with an Instruction as to how he should act therein. It reads, word for word as follows :---

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"Instruction for Lieutenant Pieter Cowwenhoven.