[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Mohawk chief, Adogbegnewalquo, then addressed the Esopus chiefs : " The whole country is now convened in be half of you, who began this quarrel, to procure you peace.1 If 1 At a later period the Mohawks con-us," the Dutch, and this was also the ver-sidered the causes of the Esopus war, and diet of the Katskill Indians. — O'Calla-reported that "all their zaakemaakers £^20,11,396. (sachems) lay the cause of the war on 142 « THE INDIAN TRIBES this be once concluded, break it not again. If ye do break it and treat us with contempt, we sljall never again intercede for you." * The Minsi sachem, Onderis Hocque, then addressed the Esopus sachems : " Ye must not renew this quarrel; neither kill horse nor cow, nor steal any property. Whatever ye want, ye must purchase or earn. Live with the Dutch as brothers. Ye cause us and the Mohawks great losses. This is not your land. It is our land. Therefore repeat not this,1 but throw down the hatchet. Tread it so deep into the earth that it shall never be taken up again." He then presented them with a white belt, and, turning to the Dutch, he warned them not to renew this trouble, nor to beat the Esopus Indians in the face and then laugh at them.