Did not both these expeditions attack, shoot and slay in their sleep a large number of these Indians with their wives and children, including even innocent sucklings, and set fire to their huts? 34.

Had the Dutch residing at the Flat land any warning to be on their guard?

35.

Did the people, especially those dwelling at the Flat land, not immediately express dissatisfaction at this sudden and unexpected slaughter?

36.

Was it perpetrated after previous deliberation of the entire Council in New Netherland and with its approbation? 37.

Did not the general war follow these acts when the Indians sought to avenge themselves?

When the heads of certain slain Indians were brought to the Manhatans, did not Secretary Tienhoven's mother-in-law exult over the circumstance, and with her feet kick the heads which were brought in? 39.

Was she not then upbraided by the women that her husband and brothers-in-law had originated this war, and also caused their husbands to be in consequence daily slain by the Indians?

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40.

Did not the soldiers, in cold blood, and before all the world, cut and stab with knives, one of the two Indian prisoners at the guard-house who had been brought from Heemstede, and were not living slices cut from the other's body, and whilst he was still alive, were not his privy parts cut off in the Beaver's path where they afterwards cut off his head?

41,

Were not Kieft and La Montagne also present when the slices were cut from the living body? 42.