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For a time things again assumed a peaceful basis, the Indians 

 coming in to New Amsterdam to trade as of old. However, the 

 Dutch could not resist the temptation to cheat and defraud, nor the 

 Indians to drink, and constant friction resulted. 



Stuyvesant, who succeeded Kieft, was a better and more 

 diplomatic man, and was more successful with the native tribes. 

 In 1665, however, war broke out again. Hendrick Van Dyck, 

 ex-schout-fiscal of New Amsterdam, lived at what is now the 

 west side of Broadway, near Bowling Green, next door to Paulus 

 Linderstein Van der Grist. One afternoon in September Van Dyck 

 saw an Indian woman picking peaches in his orchard, and, drawing 

 his pistol, shot her dead. Stuyvesant had by his firm, truthful and 

 just dealings with the Indians held them in peace and almost won 

 their friendship, Van Dyck made an end of this by his cruel stupidity. 



No notice was taken of the murder by the authorities despite the 

 repeated complaints of the Indians. A war party of Wappinger was 

 on its way to battle, and the local Indians begged their aid. On the 

 15th of September early in the morning, before scarcely any one had 

 risen, sixty-four canoes containing five hundred armed warriors 

 landed and scattered themselves through the town, and under 

 the pretext of searching for their hereditary enemies, the Mohawk, 

 forced entrance to the various houses. They offered no one any 

 personal violence, however, and their chiefs even consent to attend 

 2 council with the governor where they promised to depart in the 

 evening, some going to Governors island, but when evening arrived 

 they returned, joined by two hundred more armed warriors. Landing 

 at the Battery they went up Broadway to Van Dyck's home and there 

 shot him dead with an arrow. Van der Grist, attempting to assist 

 him, was tomahawked. 



At this the Dutch burgher guard attacked the Indians without 

 orders just as they were disembarking, and a sharp battle ensued 

 with loss on both sides. The Indians withdrew to the west side of 

 the river where they destroyed Hoboken and Pavonia, and later the 

 settlement at Staten island. Fully fifty persons were killed and 

 one hundred or more captured, and about eighty thousand dollars 

 worth of damage was done. Stuyvesant was at South River when 

 this outbreak occurred but returned as soon as he learned of the 

 trouble. War parties of Indians were wandering all over Man- 

 hattan island and the Dutch were confined to the fort. 



Upon Stuyvesant's return fortifications were strengthened and 

 preparations were made to resist an assault, but the Indians were 



