[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] virtually destroyed, but the facts do not two hundred." Their losses subsequently warrant the conclusion. In the attack could not have reduced them to the sixty of 1 659, "the savages, estimated at four stated. The Dutch had no confidence or five hundred warriors, harassed the in such a state of facts, for they relaxed Dutch day and night j" in that of 1663, none of their vigilance. 154 THE INDIAN TRIBES maize which had been left was cut up and cast into the kil. Thence marching down the kil, " several large wigwams" were found, as well as " divers maize plantations," which were also destroyed. The expedition then returned to Wiltwyck. Negotiations for the release of the captives still remaining in the hands of the Indians were again opened. On the 5th of November, one of the chiefs agreed to return them in ten days, for which purpose a truce was granted by Couwenhoven, whose sloop remained at the Dans-kammer. On the yth, two children were brought in by a Wappinger chief, who accompanied them as a friend and' who promised to bring in a captive woman whom he had purchased. This woman he brought in on the 1 3th, and received in exchange a Wapplnger, called Splitnose, and one of the captive squaws and her child.