History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 55 (part 3)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] From a whispered suspicion it grew to public clamor, that the embassy had no less an object than to secure the union of all the Indians in a " general war against both the English and the Dutch." The story spread to New England, where its falsity was demon-104 THE INDIAN TRIBES strated; x but in the meanwhile the inhabitants at New Amster dam saw the hand of hostile Indians in every thing; believed that they had attempted to destroy the settlement by setting fire to its powder-magazine, and the director by poisoning him " or enchanting him by their deviltry." 2 The storm passed over only to be succeeded by another. The Hackinsacks and Tappans had hitherto escaped special irritating collisions with the Dutch. True, the Tappans had resisted the attempt to place them under tribute, but this attempt appears to have been abandoned. De Vries 3 had settled among the latter,