[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] men might be seen, mangled and helpless, suffering from cold and hunger; children were tossed into the stream, and as their parents plunged to their rescue, the soldiers prevented their land-ing, that both child and parent might drown. "^ Beside these thirty more were murdered at Corlaers Hook on Manhattan Island while sunk in repose. "This unjustifiable outrage led to consequences ulmost fatal to the Dutch. It estranged the Long Island Indians, the wann-est of their friends, who now formed an alliance with the River Indians, whose hate knew no bounds when they discovered that it was the Dutch, and not the Mohawks, v/ho had attacked them at Pavonia and Corlaers Hook. The tomahawk, the fire-brandj and scalping knife, were clutched with all the ferocity of phrensy, and the war-whoop rang from the Raritan to the Connecticut, for eleven tribes of savages proclaimed open war against the Dutch. Every settler on whom they laid hands was murdered — women and children dragged into captivity; and though the settlements around Fort Amsterdam extended, at this period, thirty English miles to the east, and twenty-one to the north and south, the en-emy burned the dwellings, desolated the farms and form-houses, killed the cattle, destroyed the crops of grain, hay, and tobacco, laid waste the country all around, and drove the settlers, panic-stricken, into Fort Amsterdam. ' Mine eyes saw the flames of their towns,' says Roger Williams, 'the frights and hurries of