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much more expert in hunting and able to endure fatigues than the 

 Adirondacks expected or desired ; in short they became jealous of them, 

 and one night murdered all the young men they had with them. The Five 

 Nations complained to the chiefs of the Adirondacks of the inhumanity of 

 this action ; but they contented themselves with blaming the murderers, 

 and ordered them to make some small presents to the relatives of the 

 murdered persons without being apprehensive of the resentment of the 

 Five Nations ; for they looked upon them as men not capable of taking 

 any great revenge. This, however, provoked the Five Nations to that 

 degree that they soon resolved by some means to be revenged, and the 

 Adirondacks being informed of their designs thought to prevent them by 

 reducing them to their obedience. The Five Nations then lived near 

 where Montreal now stands; they defended themselves at first but faintly 

 against the vigorous attacks of the Adirondacks, and were forced to leave 

 their own country and fly to the banks of the lakes where they live now. 

 As they were hitherto losers by the war, it obliged them to apply them- 

 selves to the exercise of arms, in which they became daily more and more 

 expert. Their sachems, in order to raise their people's spirits, turned 

 them against the Satanas, called by the French "the Ouonons," a less 

 warlike nation, who then lived on the banks of the lakes ; for they found 

 it was difficult to remove the dread their people had of the valour of the 

 Adirondacks. The Five Nations soon subdued the Satanas, and drove 

 them out of the country ; and their people's courage being thus elevated, 

 they from this time not only defended themselves bravely against the 

 whole force of the Adirondacks, but often carried the war into the heart 

 of the Adirondacks' country, and at last forced them to leave it and to 

 fly into that part of the country where Quebec is now built. 



*' Soon after this change of the people of these nations, the French 

 arrived in Canada, and settled in Quebec ; and they thinking it advisable 

 to gain the esteem and friendship of these Adirondacks in whose country 

 they settled, Monsieur Cliamplain, the first Governor of Canada, joined the 

 Adirondacks in an expedition against the Five Nations. They met a party 

 of tw hundred men of the Five Nations in Corlars Lake, which the French 

 on this occasion called by Monsieur " Champlain's " name, and both sides 

 went ashore to prepare for battle, which proved to the disadvantage of the 

 Five Nations. * * * The trade with the French, soon after this, drew 

 most of the neighbouring natives to Quebec, and they all joined in the war 

 against the Five Nations. The Adirondacks having their numbers thus 

 increased, proposed nothing less to themselves than the entire destruction of 

 the Five Nations." 



Mr. Colden, after relating various stratagems resorted to by the Adiron- 



