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Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

CHAPTER V
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Adriansen was sent to Holland for trial.
After terrible scenes of suffering, a temporary peace was restored through the heroic interposition of DeVrees.

He was the only man who dared to venture among the exasperated Indians.

They watched over him kindly, and entreated him to be cautious in exposing himself, lest harm might befall him from some wandering Indians by whom he was not known.

But the wrongs which the Indians had experienced were too deep to be buried in oblivion.

And there was nothing in the character of Kieft to secure their confidence.


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