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mission with a troubled mind. His anxiety was 

 not so much for his life as for his honor and dig 

 nity ; for, while the Oneidas and the Cayugas were 

 acting in concurrence with the Onondagas, the 

 Senecas had refused any part in the embassy, and 

 still breathed nothing but war. Would they, or 

 still more the Mohawks, so far forget the consid- 

 eration diie to one whose name had been great in 

 the councils of the League as to assault the Hu- 

 rons Avhile he was among them m the character 

 of an ambassador of his nation, whereby his honor 

 would be compromised and his life endangered] 

 His mind brooded on this idea, and he told one of 

 his colleagues, that, if such a slight were put upon 

 hijn, he should die of mortification. " I am not a 

 dead dog," he said, " to be despised and forgotten. 

 I am worthy that all men should turn their eyes 

 on me while I am among enemies, and do nothing 

 that may involve me in danger." 



What with hunting, fishing, canoe-making, and 

 bad weather, the progress of the august travellers 

 was so slow, that they did not reach the Huron 

 towns till the twenty- third of October. Scanda- 

 wati presented seven large belts of wampum, each 

 composed of three or four thousand beads, which 

 the Jesuits call the pearls and diamonds of the 

 country. He delivered, too, the fifteen captives, 

 and promised a hundred more on the final conclu- 

 sion of peace. The three Onondagas remained, as 

 surety for the good faith of those who sent them, 

 until the beginning of January, when the Hurons 

 on their part sent six ambassadors to conclude the 



