[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Pos returned, and in a few days brought from the chief of the Hack insacks fourteen prisoners, u men, women and children," as a token of his good will, " in return for which he requested some powder and ball. Stuyvesant sent him a Wappinger and an Esopus Indian in exchange, and also some ammunition, of which he promised a further supply when other prisoners should be brought in. Pos, accompanied by two influential citizens, con veyed this message, and soon returned with twenty-eight of the captives and another message that from twenty to twenty-four 16 124 THE INDIAN TRIBES others would be restored on the receipt of a proper quantity of friezes, guns, wampum and ammunition, but they would not exchange the prisoners for Indians, ransom was the order of their laws. Stuyvesant then asked the ransom price " for all the prisoners en masse, or for each individually," and received the answer, " seventy-eight pounds of powder and forty staves of lead, for twenty-eight persons." This offer was accepted, and thirty-five pounds of powder and ten staves of lead addi tional sent, but no more prisoners were returned, the highland chieftaincies having determined to retain them as hostages. No measures were taken to punish the Indians. The Dutch were clearly at fault, in the opinion of Stuyvesant,1 and he turned a deaf ear to those who clamored for war, and who in return charged him with winking " at this infraction of the peace."