The question was anxiously deliberated, in the Council, respecting the best mode of recovering them.

One only, Van Tienhoven, was in favor of war.

But Governor Stuyvesant said, "The recent war is to be attributed to the rashness of a few hot-headed individuals.

It becomes us to reform ourselves, to abstain from all that is wrong, and to protect our villages with proper defences.

Let us build block-houses wherever they are needed and not permit any armed Indian to enter the European settlements." The Long Island Indians sent a delegation to New Amsterdam declaring that for ten years, since 1645, they had been the friends of the Dutch, and had done them no harm, "not even to the value of a dog." They sent, as a present, a bundle of wampum in token of the friendship of the chiefs of the Eastern tribes.