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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 206 (part 4)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] One of the Indians lingered in a canoe beside the vessel with evidently thievish intent, and, although warned away, watched his opportunity, and climbing up the rudder into the cabin window, stole a pillow and a few articles of wear-ing apparel. He was discovered by the mate with his plunder and shot down. The other Indians fled in alarm, some of them in their terror leaping into the river. The ship's boat was sent out to recover