24 THE PASSENGER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



their reservation in Cattaraugus county, New York, 

 encamped upon the site of the abandoned town, dur- 

 ing the pigeon nesting near there. The Indian ceme- 

 tery was made by platforms in the trees. Afterward 

 Mr. Lyman buried the bones, parched corn, arrows, 

 .bows and ornaments of the Indian dead in the gravel, 

 near the river. It has been enlarged and incorpor- 

 ated as the John Lyman Cemetery, and it is the prin- 

 cipal place of interment in Roulette township, to this 

 day. 



In late May, 1805, John Lyman bought several hun- 

 dred squabs of the Indians to take to Olean and bar- 

 ter for the seeds he was in search of ; for there was a 

 nesting then, near there, along Reed's Run and on the 

 hill west from Point Lookout, where the canyon of the 

 Sinnemahoning was overlooked for possible intruders 

 from the south. Smoke from their camp fires would 

 betray their forays, for about fifty miles, to the Seneca 

 scout and he would paddle down the river to Tunun- 

 guam, their chief town on the x\llegheny, nine miles 

 below Olean, opposite to the mouth of a creek, now 

 named Tuna Gwant, flowing past the city of Bradford 

 and. thence to the river. The Senecas would then be 

 ready to defend their hunting grounds, when the in- 

 truders arrived. 



The first night was spent by John Lyman with- 

 Cyrus Turner, at his home in a hollow buttonwood tree 

 on the left bank of the river at Voemont — Wailing Hill 

 — and he went through to Olean the second night, where 

 Ik- sold the squabs ; but found no seeds and continued 



