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dacks and the Five Nations to overcome each other, then proceeds, " The 

 Five Nations are so much delighted witli stratagems in war that no 

 superiority of their forces ever makes them neglect them. They amused 

 the Adirondacks, and their allies, the Quatoghies (called by the French, 

 Hurons) by sending to the French and desiring peace. The French desired 

 them to receive some priests among them, in hopes that those prudent 

 fathers would, by some act, reconcile them to their interest and engage 

 their affections. The Five Nations readily accepted the offer, and some 

 Jesuits went along with them. But after they had the Jesuits in their 

 power they used them only as hostages, and thereby obliged the French 

 to stand neuter, while they prepared to attack the Adirondacks and 

 Quatoghies (Hurons), and they defeated the Quatoghies in a dreadful battle 

 fought within two leagues of Quebec. This defeat, in sight of the French 

 settlements, struck terror into all their allies, who were at that time 

 numerous, because of the trade with the French, which furnished them 

 with many of their most useful convenencies." 



Mr. Surveyor-General Colden's relation proves two things. 1st. That 

 the war as between the Iroquois and Hurons at the beginning of the Seven- 

 teenth Century, originated with the Iroquois in revenge for the treacher- 

 erous conduct of the Adirondacks in murdering young men of the Five 

 Nations. 2nd. That the war once commenced extended to the Hurons, 

 the fast allies of the Adirondacks in peace or war. 



The Rev. E. F. Slater, in his article contributed to the Narrative and 

 Critical History of America, says, when Champlain arrived in Canada he 

 was met at Tadousac by 1,000 Indians, among others, Algonquins, coming 

 from the vast region watered by the Ottawa. They had just returned, he 

 says, from a conflict with the Iroquois, near the mouth of the flichelieu. 



This was no doubt the same conflict to which Mr. Golden refers in his 

 narrative. 



Champlain had not been long in Canada when he thought it to his 

 interest to form an alliance with the Hurons. This he did, and in 1609, 

 with his Huron and Algonquin allies, came across the path of 200 Mo- 

 hawks, which were met in the neutral territory near Ticonderoga, Lake 

 Champlain. In this engagement, Champlain inflicted a severe blow upon 

 he Mohawks, and returned to Montreal amidst great rejoicings. In 1615, 

 Champlain made another expedition against the Iroquois of the Mohawk 

 Valley. To effect his purpose he pursued what would now be called a very 

 large and circuitous route. The course he followed was up the Ottawa 

 to Lake Nipissing ; crossing this lake he entered the channel of the 

 French River, entered Lake Huron and coasted along Georgian Bay till 



