(See  Hoboken,  Massacre  at.)  A  fierce  war  was
kindled.  The  friendly  Long  Island  tribes  join-
ed their  injured  brethren,  aud  the  Dutch  colony
was  threatened  with  destruction.  Help  came
from  a  Puritan,  and  the  Indians  were  subdued.
Kieft,  despised  by  the  colonists  on  whom  he  had
brought  ruin,  humbly  asked  them  to  form  a  rep-
resentative council  again.  The  people  gladly
did  so,  for  they  had  lost  all  confidence  in  the
governor.  This  concession  was  a  pitiful  trick
of  Kieft  to  foil  the  wrath  of  the  colonists.  He
neglected  the  advice  of  the  popular  assembly,
and  sought  by  every  means  to  fill  his  own  cof-
fers with  gain  against  a  day  of  reckoning  which
he  perceived  was  near.  Tlie  representatives  of
the  people,  finding  his  rule  unendurable,  asked
for  the  recall  of  Kieft  before  the  colony  should
be  mined.  Their  prayer  was  heeded,  and  the
people  celebrated  his  departure  by  the  firing  of
great  guns.  Some  pugnacious  burghers  threat-
ened the  governor  with  personal  chastisement
when  he  should  "  take  off  the  coat  with  which
he  was  bedecked  by  the  lords,  his  masters."
The  prophecy  of  De  Vries  (1643) — "The  ninr-
ders  in  which  you  [Kieft]  have  shed  so  much
innocent  blood  will  yet  be  avenged  upon  your
own  head" — was  fulfilled.  Kieft  sailed  for  Hol-
land (Aug.  16,  1647),  in  the  ship  Princess,  with
more  than  §100,000  of  ill-gotten  wealth.  The
vessel,  by  mistake,  entered  the  Bristol  channel,
struck  a  rock,  and  was  wrecked  on  the  coast  of
Wales.     Kieft  was  drowned.
