. History of the city of New York . The small, woithhiss straw huts around tlie fortwere tlie whieh eould l)e ;,iven to the homeless sulfer-ers who had Hed from the tomahawk and seali)in<,-knife. Tlie fort itscdfwas in no eondition to meet the emer<,ency of the hour; and provisionsand clothing were wholly inadetiuate to the denumd. As helj) fromHolland must come slowly, if, indeed, it came at all l)efore spring,ex[)editions were planned against some of the Indian villages, thechief object of which was plunder. Meanwhile the Eight Men sentto the States-Cleueral a bold complai
. History of the city of New York . The small, woithhiss straw huts around tlie fortwere tlie whieh eould l)e ;,iven to the homeless sulfer-ers who had Hed from the tomahawk and seali)in<,-knife. Tlie fort itscdfwas in no eondition to meet the emer<,ency of the hour; and provisionsand clothing were wholly inadetiuate to the denumd. As helj) fromHolland must come slowly, if, indeed, it came at all l)efore spring,ex[)editions were planned against some of the Indian villages, thechief object of which was plunder. Meanwhile the Eight Men sentto the States-Cleueral a bold complaint of the neglect of the West In-dia Company. They said, We have had uo means of defense providedagainst a savage foe, and we have had a niiscniljlc despot sent to ruleover us. About the middle of November, a colony of English emigrants,headetl by IJobert Fordham, an-ived at Hempstede, Long Island,and settled on laud which was granted them by Kieft. Their houseswere hardly ready for occupation when suspicious of treachery fell upon. Group, showing Holland Fashions. Penhawitz, the sachem of the Canavsee Indians, who since the trucein the spring had, to all outward appearauce, been friendly. Fordhamseut a message of this import to the governor, who, without waitingto ascertain the truth of the charge, dispatched one hundred aud men, under the command of Dr. La Montague, Cook, •*■ ^■and Underhill, to exterminate the Canarsees. They sailed in three 118 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. yachts to Cow Bay, and proceeded to the two Indian villages. Thesavages, taken by surprise, made little resistance, and one hundred andtwenty were killed, while the assailants lost but one man. Two prison-ers were taken to New Amsterdam and put to death in the most revolt-ing manner. One, frightfully wounded by the long knives with whichKieft had armed the soldiers instead of swords, at last dropped deadwhile dancing the death-dance of his race. The other, shockingly muti-lated befor
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