[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] demeaned themselves as soldiers and deployed in small bands, 1 " The first of these savages having the fort, and the soldiers bringing him to received a frightful wound, desired them the beaver's path (he dancing the kinte-to permit him to dance what is called kaye all the time), threw him down, cut the kinte-kaye, a religious use observed off his partes genitales, thrust them into among them before death j he received, his mouth while still alive, and at last, however, so many wounds, that he placing him on a millstone, cut off his dropped down dead. The soldiers then cut head. * * There stood at the strips from the other's body, beginning at same time some twenty-four or twenty-the calves, up the back, over the shoul-five female savages, who had been taken ders and down to the knees. While this prisoners, and when they saw this bloody was going forward Director Kieft and spectacle, they held up their arms, struck his councillor, Jan De la Montagne, a their mouths, and in their language ex-Frenchman, stood laughing heartily at claimed : * For shame For shame the fun, and rubbing his right arm, so such unheard of cruelty was never known much delight he took in such scenes, among us.' " — Documentary History t iv, He then ordered him to be taken out of 105. 15 116 THE INDIAN TRIBES so that we got in a short time twelve dead and one wounded. They were so hard pressed that it was impossible for one to escape.