[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] chems refused to meet him. A conference was finally held on the 1 8th of December, and the Indians persuaded to bring in some supplies in exchange for powder; but they refused to make peace, denounced the truce which had been made as without binding authority, and retained their young prisoners, having killed all the others. In the spring of 1660, peace having been concluded with the Wappingers, Stuyvesant determined upon active hostilities against the Esopus cantons; but the latter, shorn to a large extent of their allies, were not disposed to continue the contest, and accordingly secured the intercession of Goethals, the chief sachem of the Wappingers, that they might be included in the treaty which had been made. with that tribe. Stuyvesant doubted their sincerity, and Goethals replied : " The Indians say the same of the Dutch." He assured Stuyvesant that Kaelcop, Pemmyraweck, and other Esopus sachems were anx ious for peace, and that it was only the kalebackers x who were not inclined to treat, but that the chiefs would make them 1 Indians who possessed guns were most idle and vicious of the Indian peo-called kalebackersy and were generally the pie. — De Lact. OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 137