1st October being Monday, we marched from Wildwyck with these following troops; of the Military 102 men; of the Marseping Indians 46 men ; of the freemen 6 ; with 14 horses obtained from the farmers of Wildwyck for the use of the expedition so as to be able to accommodate the wounded, should we have any. Marched with these troops about 9 hours and arrived in the evening about 7 miles from Wildwyck where we passed the night. Experienced scarcely any trouble through the day ; had considerable rain in the night.

Qnd ditto. Started again with our troops and about two o'clock in the afternoon came to the fort of the Esopus Indians where we had attacked them on the 5t® September and there found five . large pits into which they had cast their dead. The wolves had ~ rooted up and devoured some of them. Lower down on the Kill were four other pits full of dead Indians and we found, futher on, three Indians with a Squaw anda Child that. lay unburied and almost wholly devoured by the ravens and the wolves. Sent out, immediately a party of Dutch men and Indians four miles beyond the fort in a South westerly direction where our guide presumed some Esopus Indians would be, but on coming there discovered nothing but some wigwams which had been a long time abandoned by the Indians. Meanwhile I had been over the Kill with a party of men and pulled off the corn and threw it into the Kill. The troops returned in the evening withoni having seen any Indians. About two. miles from the fort perceived the trail of two Indians who had gone across the mountain ; supposed to be strange Indians ; The trail was aday old.