[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The director, seizing the opportunity for vengeance thus presented, secretly dispatched a body of soldiers across the Hudson to Pavonia, which had been selected by most of the fleeino-savages as their headquarters, and on the night between the 25th and 26th of February these natives were indiscriminately massacred " Nearly a hundred," says Bancroft, " perished in the carnage Davbreak did not end its horrors; men might be seen, mangled and helpless, suffering from cold and hunger; children were tossed into the stream, and as their parents plunged to their rescue the soldiers prevented their landing, that both child and parent might drown » Similar scenes were enacted at Corlaer's Hook, where forty Indians were slaughtered. In 1886 the remains of some of these vic-tims of Kieft's inhumanity and treachery were unearthed by persons making excavations at Communipaw Avenue and Halliday Street, Jersev City. A newspaper report published at the time, after recit-ing the historical facts of the tragedy, gave the following particulars: "Trenches were dug [bv the soldiers] and the bodies thrown into them indiscriminately. The scene of the butchery is now known as Lafay-ette and after nearly two and a half centuries one of the trenches has been opened. Crowds gathered around the place yesterday while the excavating was going on, and looked at the skulls and bones.