They then took the other four with them in the sailing boat, two of whom were towed along by a

' string round their necks till they were drowned, while the two unfortunate survivors were detained as prisoners at fort Amsterdam. When they had been kept a long time in the corps de garde, the director became tired: of giving them food any longer, and they were delivered to the soldiers to do as they pleased

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with. The poor unfortunate prisoners were immediately dragged out of the guard house and soon dispatched with knives of from - 18 to 20 inches long, which director Kieft had made for his soldiers for such purposes, saying that the swords were too long for use in the huts of the savages, when they went to surprise them; but that these knives were much handier for bowelling them. 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 use observed among them before death ; he received however so many wounds, that he dropped down dead. The soldiers then cut strips from the other's body, beginning atthe calves, up the back, over the shoulders and down to the knees. While this was going forward, director Kieft, with his councillor Jan de la Montaigne, a Frenchman, stood laughing heartily at the fun, and rubbing his right arm, so much delight he took in such scenes. He then ordered him to be taken out of the fort, and the soldiers bringing him to the Beaver's path (he dancing the Kinte Kaeye all the time) threw him down, cut off his partes genitales, thrust them into his mouth while still alive, and at last, placing him on a mill stone, cut off his head.