CHAPTER V.
WAR AND ITS DEVASTATIONS.
Approaching Hostilities .-- Noble Remonstrance .-- Massacre of the Natives .-- The War Storm .-- Noble conduct of DeVrees .-- The Humiliation of Kieft .-- Wide-Spread Desolation .-- The Reign of Terror .-- State of Affairs at Fort Nassau .-- The Massacre at Stamford .-- Memorial of the Select Men .-- Kieft Superseded by Peter Stuyvesant.
The year 1643 was a year of terror and of blood in nearly all of the American colonies.

New England was filled with alarm in the apprehension of a general rising of the Indians.

It was said that a benighted traveller could not halloo in the woods without causing fear that the savages were torturing their European captives.

This universal panic pervaded the Dutch settlements.

The wildest stories were circulated at the firesides of the lonely settlers.