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bravery, piety and fiendish cruelty hard to equal. Of the conduct 

 of this genial gentleman in the New England wars, Trumbull has 

 said, " He could justify putting the weak and defenceless to death, 

 for says he, ' The Scripture declareth women and children must 

 perish with their parents . . . we had sufficient light from the 

 word of God for our proceedings.' '' 



Two companies were soon organized, one of sixty-five men and 

 the other of seventy-five men. The second company was composed 

 of forty burghers under Captain Pietersen and thirty-five English 

 under Lieutenant Baxter, Councillor La Montague acting as general. 

 This band made a raid upon the Staten Island Indians, but suc- 

 ceeded only in obtaining some corn which had been abandoned. 

 Returning to the fort they were reinforced by one hundred twenty 

 men and iuA^aded the Weckquaesgeck country. They landed at 

 Greenwich, marched all night and found nothing. As they retreated 

 through Stamford they met some English who told them there were 

 Indians nearby. Scouts located an Indian village and twenty-five 

 soldiers sent there killed a number and took some prisoners. 

 Guided by a captive they located three empty Weckquaesgeck 

 '* castles '' and burned them, after which they returned. 



Meanwhile Underbill landed on Long Island and set out to attack 

 the Canarsies under T*enhawitz. After landing, Captain Pieter Cock 

 and General La Montague set out with eighty men to destroy a large 

 settlement at Maspeth and Underbill while fourteen men were sent 

 to a small village or camp at Hempstead. Both parties were 

 successful, killing one hundred twenty Indians, only one of the 

 whites being killed and three wounded. 



The English minister Fordham had seven Indians accused of pig 

 stealing locked in his cellar. Three of these Underbill himself killed, 

 two were towed in the water until they were dead, and two were 

 token to Fort Amsterdam where they were turned over to the soldiers 

 to amuse themselves with. 



" The first of these savages having received a frightful wound, 

 desired them to permit him to dance what is called the kinte-kaye, a 

 religious use observed among them before death ; he received, how- 

 ever, so many wounds that lie dropped down dead. The soldiers 

 then cut strips from the other's body, beginning at the calves up the 

 back, over the shoulders and down to the knee. While this was 

 going forward Director Kieft and his councillor, Jan de la Montague, 

 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 



