[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] one rick, and a little stack of seed," and in the old village of Wiltwyck twelve houses were burned.2 Writes Bloom,3 of the scene after the Indians had retreated : " There lay the burnt and slaughtered bodies, together with those wounded by bullets and 1 Documentary History, iv, 39. s Documentary History, in, 962. 3 Documentary History, iv, 42, 44. 19 148 THE INDIAN TRIBES axes. The last agonies and the moans and lamentations of many were dreadful to hear. I have been in their midst, and have gone into their houses and along the roads, to speak a word in season, and that not without danger of being shot by the In dians. The burnt bodies were most frightful to behold. A woman lay burnt, with her child at her side, as if she were just delivered, of which I was a living witness. Other women lay burnt also in their houses. The houses were converted into heaps of stones, so that I might say with Micah, c We are made desolate;' Mid with Jeremiah, ' A piteous wail may go forth in his distress.' The Indians have slain in all twenty-four souls in our