314 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



York State, they had to move ion and they brought up on the shores of 

 Georgian Bay, next door neighbours to a branch of their family that had 

 preceded them, the Hurons who lived between Lake Simcoe and Mat- 

 chedash Ba)^ 



Horatio Hale in his introduction to " The Iroquois Book of Eites " 

 (pp. 10, 11) quotes from Clarke's traditions, which, in the mam, agree 

 with Connelly's record. He also traces the original seat of the Huron- 

 Iroquois to the Lower St. Lawrence. Hale puts it briefly thus : " As 

 their numbers increased, dissensions arose. The hive swarmed, and 

 band after band moved off to the west and south." This " swarming 

 of the hive " has ever since been a favourite expression with writers and 

 students of the Huron-Inoquois race. 



Now let us briefly locate the principal swarms. First of all, there 

 were the Hurons on Georgian Bay between Matchedash Bay and Not- 

 tawasaga Bay, otecupying part of the present County of Simcoe. "VTest 

 of them were the Tobacoo IsTation, the Tioanontates or Petuns. South 

 of them, in the district from Magara to the Detroit, were the Neuters 

 or Neutral Nation. On the South Shore of Lake Erie were the Eries 

 or Cat Nation. Southeast of them on the Susquehannah were the An- 

 dastes or Conestogas. Along the South Shore of Lake Ontario in 

 Central New York were the Five Nations of the Iroquois. If we add 

 the Tuscaroras or sixth Iroquois Nation we have the principal nations 

 that had originated in Quebec and, that, before Champlain's time, had 

 m'oved west and taken up the districts that we have referred to. Ethno- 

 logists tell us that their languages were very similar; the traditions of 

 these nations all point to long intercourse and close relationship in 

 origin; arch^ologists have determined a similarity of life; the Jesuit 

 Fathers also refer again and again to their kinship. 



The Hurons were so called by the French because they wore part 

 of their hair standing straight up like the bristles on a wild boar. Their 

 own name was Ouendat or Wyandott. 



The Tobacco Nation was so called because they were growers tof 

 that article. Their Indian name was Tionnontates, their French name 

 Petun. 



The Neutrals were so called because, in the terrible wars between 

 the Iroquois and the Hurons, they maintained neutrality. The Indian 

 name of the Neutrals was Attiwendaronk, which, according to the 

 Relation of 1641, meant in the Huron language " people of a speech 

 a little different." 



The Eries were also called the Cats because of the prevalence of 

 racoons in their country. 



