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.

H. What shameful barbarity ! r

B. What I tell you is true, for by the same token there stood at the same time 24 or 24 female savages, who had been taken prisoner at the N. W. point of the fort ; and when they saw this bloody spectacle, they held up their arms, struck their mouth, and in their language exclaimed: " For shame! for shame! such unheard of cruelty was never known, or even thought of among us." The savages have often called out to us from a distance: what scoundrels you Swannekens are; you do not war upon us, but upon our wives and children, whom you treacherously murder; whereas we do no harm either to your wives or your children, but feed and take care of them, till we send them back again to you.

K. Well, skipper, you know more news, if they were only good news, than all of us put together. How did they get on?