[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] taken prisoners there. We are sometimes obliged to pass by that path. It is good that brothers live together in peace. The French Indians meet the Mabicans near the Cohoes. This we regret. Brothers : We are united by a chain; ye too ought to mourn. This our speech is designed merely to rouse you from your slumbers. We shall return next spring to receive your conclusions. Warn the Dutch not to beat the Indians; otherwise they will say, ' We know nothing of this.' ' 1 O* Callaghan^ n, 421, etc. 146 THE INDIAN TRIBES Stuyvesant replied, that when the chiefs were, " for the first time at the Manhattans, some two or three years ago," the tobacco was forgotten, but a roll would now be given to them to make them remember their agreement when they returned to their own country; that he had " made peace with the In dians at Esopus, at the solicitation of the Mohawks, the Mabi-cans, and other friends," so that they might use in safety the rivers and the roads; that as they had thanked hirn for making that peace, he solicited that they should " make peace with the Minsis and cultivate it," that the Dutch " might use the road to them in safety;" that he would now give them a