[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] struck him down with his own axe." While Smith was thus carrying war into the heart of the Indian country, several of the sachems were seeking the media tion of the neighboring chiefs to secure a permanent peace. Sewackenamo called his warriors together to know their wishes. " We will fight no more," was the brief reply. The chief next assembled the squaws, and inquired " what seemed to them best?" These answered, " That we plant our fields in peace and live in quiet." He then assembled the young men, who urged him to make peace with the Dutch, and declared that " they would not kill either hog or fowl any more." The sachem then proceeded to Gamoenapa to secure the assistance of the sachems of the Hackinsacks and Tappans in procuring a cessation of hostilities. While there a runner brought to him the intelligence of the death of Preummaker, which so unmanned him that cc he knew not what to do." Leaving his Hackinsack friends to negotiate for him, he returned to his people with a heavy heart. Oritarty, of the Hackinsacks, bore the peace belts which were committed to him to Fort Amsterdam, and presented them to the director on the 2d of June. Stuyvesant assured him tfyat the Dutch were disposed for friendship.