A Brief And True Narrative of the Hostile Conduct of the Barbarous Natives Towards the Dutch Nation
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Andijirji : Was not their unfeafonable, unannounced and unauthorized collefting here of Nineteen hundred Savages, Right hundred of whom had already landed, to make an attack on Fifty or Sixty ^ con- trary to their ufual Cuftoms, fufficient to create a Sufpicion of an evil Intent ? and did not the intolerable Infolencies which they committed in breaking into Mr. Allertons Houfe, and beating fome Bur- ghers in their own Houfes, increafe that 5 34 Appendix. Sufpicion afterwards ? Did not their re-... maining here, contrary to their Promife, and the Murder which they fought to commit, after the fetting of the Watch, on Captain Paulus Leendertfen^ afford fufficient Grounds for concluding an evil Intention on their part? And were not all the Burghers, who were to be mufter- ed in the Fort for its Security, and being there (fince they were not called out to guard the Fort only but to protect the intire Place), were they not in duty bound to fuccour any Burgher who cried out. Murder ! Help I And coming there, and j(inding the Burgher wounded in the Bread by an Arrow, were they not bound to run to the Indians for the purpofe of examining their Faces, and when they found them with Arms and Guns, were they not juftified in making a ftand againft them?
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