[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] HE troubles of the Dutch with the Indians, to which frequent allusion has been made, began in 1641, as the result of a revengeful personal act, capitally illustrating the vindic-tiveness of the Indian character. In 1626, fifteen years be-x venerable Indian warrior, accompanied by his nephew, a lad of tender age, came to New Amsterdam with some furs, which he in-tended to sell at the fort. Passing by the edge of the " Collect," a natural pond in the lower part of Manhattan Island, he was stopped CAPTAIN JOHN UNDERHILL y< by three laborers belonging to the farm of Director Minnit (said to have been negroes), who, coveting the valuable property which he bore, slew him and made off with the goods, bnt permitted the boy to escape. The latter, after the custom of his race in circumstances of personal grievance, made a vow of vengeance, which in 1641, having arrived at manhood's estate, he executed in the most deliberate and cruel manner. He one day entered the shop of Claes Cornel isz Hmits, a wheelwright living near Turtle Bay, in the vicinity of Forty-fifth street and the East River. The Dutchman, who knew him well, sus-pected no harm, and, after setting food before him, went to a chest to get some cloth which the young savage had said he came to purchase. The other fell upon him from behind, ami struck him dead with an ax.