fered to enter the vessel, and falling behind it, discharged their

"in recompense whereof " six muskets replied "and killed two or three of them." The Indians retreated, and from a point of land renewed the attack but " a falcon " " shot killed two of and " the rest fled into the woods

arrows

at it;

;

them,

;

"yet they manned off another canoe, with nine or ten men," through which a falcon shot was sent, killing one of its

THE INDIAN TRIBES

Then the sailors discharged their muskets, and occupants. " killed three or four more of them." " So they went their way," and the Half Moon was hurried down into the bay, "clear from all danger," carrying thence to Holland, in Hud son's simple narrative, an epitome of the subsequent history of the intercourse of the Indians with the Europeans ; the clash of

customs, the violence, the intoxicating cup. To most of the Indians the advent of Hudson's ship was a

For over an hundred years the white-winged strange spectacle. of the old world had been wafted by them ; in the messengers further south, the white man was not a stranger, but not before his sails been folded on the breast of their waters, nor the voice of trumpet and cannon reverberated through their All this was new and strange; the Great Spirit solitudes.

had

had come to them ; the signals of a mighty change passed be Their traditions repeat that almost with the