[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] They were not suf fered to enter the vessel, and falling behind it, discharged their arrows at it; "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 them, and " the rest fled into the woods; " "yet they manned off another canoe, with nine or ten men," through which a falcon shot was sent, killing one of its 2 12 THE INDIAN TRIBES occupants. Then the sailors discharged their muskets, and " 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 strange spectacle. For over an hundred years the white-winged messengers of the old world had been wafted by them; in the further south, the white man was not a stranger, but not before had his sails been folded on the breast of their waters, nor the voice of trumpet and cannon reverberated through their solitudes. All this was new and strange; the Great Spirit had come to them; the signals of a mighty change passed be fore their vision.