"To be brief, we could not omit advising Your Honours that three Indians arrived here yesterday, being come, as they said, from the -Manhatans, with an open letter, heing a pass not to commit any hostility against their people to this date. But we cannot determine what sinister design these Indians may have recourse to under cover of this pass. We maintain that such and other Indians resort here with such passes, to spy out this our place. Meanwhile, we being on our guard, placed sentinels every where before them, to prevent them passing through the village to examine and pry into it, as they are strongly inclined to do. In the meantime we inform your Honours that on the day before yesterday the Wappinger Sachem came with venison to the Redoubt, and we have'had a talk with him, and he prom-

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ised us, among other things, to bring us hither all the Christian prisoners, within three or four days, according to the entries in our daily journal which Your Honors shall receive from us by the first Yacht. Donr, Wildwyck this first December 1663. (Was subscribed) Curistrarn Niessen, Tuomas Cuampers."

24 ditto. Sunday. Nothing happened, except that on account of the hard frost, I requested the skippers of the vessels to go down to the Redoubt to examine their Yachts which they consented todo. In the afternoon, after the Sermon, sent a party to the shore to take down grain and to put it on board.