They say that I do well in teaching the christians, but immediately add, 'Why do so many christians do these things ?'" This was several years before John Eliot commenced preaching the gospel to the Indians near Boston.

Kieft very earnestly applied to the English colony at New Haven for assistance against the Indians.

The proposal was submitted to the General Court.

After mature deliberation, it was decided that the Articles of Confederation between the New England colonies prohibited them from engaging separately in war; and that moreover "they were not satisfied that the Dutch war with the Indians was just." The Dutch Director, thus disappointed in obtaining assistance from the English, was roused to the energies of desperation.

The spirit of the people also rose to meet the emergency.