Men, women and children, haggard with hunger, exposure and woe, fled from their deserted homes to fort Amsterdam.
Despairing of ever again finding peaceful residence in this new world, with one voice they demanded a return to the fatherland.

The Dutch colonies were threatened with immediate and entire depopulation.
Kieft himself was terrified in view of the frightful storm he had raised.

He was compelled to enlist every able-bodied man as a soldier.
There was an end to all traffic, to all agriculture, to all the arts of industry.

Even the plantation of the humane DeVrees did not escape the undiscriminating wrath of the savages.

The outhouses, cattle and crops were utterly destroyed.