[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Then throwing down a beaver skin, the principal sachem reminded the director that he could well afford to be generous from the prospect of largely increased trade with the Senecas. Offering a wampum belt, he concluded : " A horse belonging to Jacob Jansen Stol broke into our corn-fields and destroyed two of our plantations. One of our boys shot it, for which we gave Stol seventy guilders in wampum. But this belt we now pre sent, so that the soldiers may let us go in peace, and not beat us when we visit this place." Stuyvesant's proposition in relation to land was left untouched by the sachem, and the director asked : " What do you intend to propose about the land ? " The sachem replied, that " it belonged to the chiefs who were not here to-day, and we can not, therefore, come to any conclusion on it." He 'promised, however, that they would return the next day and give their answer. The morrow came, but the chiefs did not return. Stuyvesant dispatched messengers to their wigwams to inquire their intentions, who returned with the answer that " the chiefs had made fools of them." Stuyvesant had overreached him self by his extravagant demand, and, chagrined and disappointed, departed for Fort Amsterdam, leaving Ensign Dirck Smith with fifty soldiers under instructions to guard the village properly, and not allow any Indians within the palisades; to act purely on the defensive, and to detail, from day to day, a proper guard