[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] They felt deeply the shame that Stuyvesant had challenged their young men, and they had not dared to accept the wager, and hoped trie fact would not be spread abroad. Presents were distributed to them in exchange for the wampum with which they had accompanied their proposals for peace; but they were told a second time that they must surrender the murderer, and make good the damages they had committed. To these requirements they demurred; and it was finally agreed that they should make compensation for damages, and sell the land for the projected village. They then retired, but returned again on the 4th with a final reply, which was that they would give the director the land he asked, u to grease his feet with, as he had taken so long a journey to visit them." They then renewed the assurance that they had thrown away all malice, and that hereafter none among them would injure a Dutchman. The director responded with like assurances; and the Indians departed. The work at the village