[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Various other injuries you have committed since that time, not withstanding your promises. For all this we demand compen sation; to enforce which, efficient measures will be taken, unless the terms we now propose be acceded to." The demand was a bold attempt at extortion; the terms of peace not less so. The Indians were required to make a free surrender of all the Esopus lands so far as they had been ex plored by the Dutch, as indemnity for the expenses which the settlers had incurred in removing their dwellings and fortifying their village; the relinquishment of all claims held by the In dians against the settlers for labor or furs, and the payment to the latter of several hundred fathoms of wampum for damages. The Indians regarded the terms as hard, and stated that they had already been deprived of many of their maize fields without compensation. Such a demand was unexpected, and as many of their sachems were absent, they asked time for consultation. Stuyvesant generously agreed to allow them one night to con sider what course they would pursue. The next day (Oct. 16), the council again assembled, and the sachems expressed a willingness to make reasonable com pensation for injuries. They would relinquish part of their claims against the settlers, and give some lands to those who had 130 THE INDIAN TRIBES been injured; but they were poor and had no wampum.