[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Long Island Indians, although previously rejecting the overtures made by the director for peace, and denouncing him as a " corn thief," became more tractable when the planting season came on, and sent from the wigwams of Penhawitz, " their great chief," three delegates to Fort Amsterdam, desiring that nego tiations might be opened. De Vries and Alferton were at once 1 De Fries, 269; New York Historical ing of me ? but by the promptness of the Society Collection, ad series, i, 269; bystanders the shot was prevented, and Brodhead, i, 255. he was arrested." — Colonial History, i, 2 " What devilish lies art thou report-184. 110. THE INDIAN TRIBES appointed to accompany them, and setting out on the 4th of March, came to Rechquaakie or Rockaway, where they found Penhawitz, surrounded by nearly three hundred warriors and a village of thirty wigwams. The next day they were conducted into the woods about four hundred yards off, where they found sixteen chiefs of the Montauks, with whom the con ference was conducted in the Indian form.1" De Vries invited the chiefs to accompany him to Fort Amsterdam, under the assurance of presents and peace. The latter embraced the offer, and, to the number of eighteen, embarked in a large canoe and reached the fort in the evening.