No one dared to venture to any distance from the fort.

An express was dispatched to South river to inform Governor Stuyvesant of the peril of the colony, and to implore his return.

This led to the hurried close of the transactions on the Delaware, and probably secured for the Swedes more favorable terms of capitulation than they would otherwise have obtained.
The return of Governor Stuyvesant with his military force, reassured the colonists.

In such an hour his imperious nature hesitated not a moment in assuming the dictatorship.

The one man power, so essential on the field of battle, seemed requisite in these scenes of peril.
There was no time for deliberation.