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beaver's path (he dancing the kinte-kaye all the time) threw him 

 down, cut oft his partes genitales, thrust them into his mouth while 

 still alive, and at last, placing him on a mill stone, cut off his head. 

 . . . . There stood at the same time some twenty-four or twenty- 

 five female savages, who had been taken prisoners and when they 

 saw this bloody spectacle, they held up their arms, struck their 

 mouths, and in their language exclaimed, ' For shame ! for shame ! 

 such unheard of cruelty was never known among us.' *" ^ Rather a 

 heavy punishment for alleged hog stealing. 



And now Underbill planned a crowning achievement. Msiting 

 Stamford, he learned that the natives had assembled to a large 

 number. ^Mth one hundred forty men, piloted by a renegade 

 Indian, he landed at Greenwich where a heavy blizzard compelled 

 him to remain all night. In the morning he marched to the north- 

 west over stony and steep hills until evening, when he arrived within 

 three miles of the village. Here he waited till ten o'clock 

 and then advanced, reaching the Indian stronghold at 

 midnight. The Indians were all alert and awake, so the whites 

 divided into small bands and attacked the lodges. In a short time 

 one* hundred eighty warriors lay dead outside; the rest were cooped 

 up in the houses. At La -Montague's suggestion these were fired. 

 The savages tried every means to escape but when they could not, 

 preferred the flames to falling into the hands of Underbill and his 

 Christian followers. About ■ seven hundred of the enemy, 

 including twenty-five visiting AA'appingers. were burned or shot, and 

 not one woman or cbild was heard to scream or cry. Underbill, 

 diligently as he searched his Bible, never seems to have seen some 

 passages which might have justified more humane action. 



The Sint-sinct, AA'eckquaesgeck, Xochpeem, Wappinger and others 

 after this calamitous defeat begged for peace, and later the ^latine- 

 cock of Long Island and the Hackensack and Tappan treated with 

 the Dutch, and the Indian war of 1641-45 was ended. 



Sixteen hundred Indians were killed, it is said, and the Dutch 

 exclaimed, " Our fields lie fallow and waste, our dwellings and other 

 buildings are burnt, not a handful can be planted or sown this fall 

 on all the abandoned places. All this through a foolish hankering 

 after war; for it is known to all right thinking men here that these 

 Indians have lived as lambs among us until a few years ago, injur- 

 ing no one, and affording every assistance.'' - 



^ Documentar}' History. I\', 105. 

 - Colonial History, i : 210. 



