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Indians— the Maquas. After this exploit the soldiers were re- 

 warded for their services. ... At another place on the same 

 night at Corler's Hook, on Corler's plantation, forty Indians were 

 in the same manner attacked in their sleep, and massacred there 

 in the same manner as the Duke of Alva did in the Netherlands, 

 but more cruelly. ... As soon as the Indians understood that 

 the Swannekens had so treated them, all the men whom they 

 could surprise on the farm lands they killed; but we have never 

 heard that they ever permitted women or children to be killed.'" 



