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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 249

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] the Indians? HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 413 40. Did not the soldiers, in cold blood, and before all the world, cut and stab with knives, one of the two Indian prisoners at the guard-house who had been brought from Heemstede, and were not living slices cut from the other's body, and whilst he was still alive, were not his privy parts cut off in the Beaver's path where they afterwards cut off his head? 41, Were not Kieft and La Montagne also present when the slices were cut from the living body? 42. Have the Indians taken any occasion to do the like to those of our people whom they took prisoners 43. Hath not Director Kieft kept scouts who showed our soldiers the Indians that lay scattered far and wide, and whose abode was not known to our people ? Did not Director Kieft with gross neglect and inattention allow some favorable opportunities to slip, when he brought the war on the people ? 45. How many head of cattle were lost by the war? 46. How many houses, bouweries and such like property burnt and destroyed ? 47. How many Indians and how many Christians lost their lives in this war? 4S. Did not Director Kieft endeavor to throw the responsibility of this war on the people, especially on the petitioners ? 49.