[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Meanwhile Ensign Smith pushed hostilities with vigor. On the 30th of May, guided by one of his prisoners, a force under his command discovered, " at the second fall of Kit Davit's kil," x about twelve miles west from the Hudson, a few Indians planting corn on the opposite' bank. The stream being swollen, it was found impossible to cross, so he returned to the village, where he learned that the Indians had concentrated their force at an almost inaccessible spot about twenty-seven miles " up the river, beyond the above-mentioned fall, where it was pretty easy to ford " the kil. Thither Smith directed his force, but the Indians received notice of his approach by the barking of their dogs, and fled, leaving behind them Preummaker, " the oldest and best of their chiefs."2 The aged sachem met his foes with the haughty demand, u What do ye here, ye dogs ? " aiming an arrow at them as he spoke. He was easily disarmed, and a ^consultation held as to how he should be disposed of. u As it 1 Sager's kil, now called the Esopus 2 O'Callaghan^ n, 411. " Preum-creek. " The second fall " was the small maker's land," lying upon Esopus kil, stream entering the Esopus creek from within the limits of Hurley, was laid out the west, south of the old village. "Kit for Venike Rosen, April 15, 1685. —