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their assistance they obtained many and repeat-^ 

 cd advantages over the Iroquoise. Nor was it 

 until the five nations became accustomed to the 

 effect of the European arms, that they could 

 make any effectual opposition to an enemy, 

 whonni they had before defeated and despised. 

 But instead of being subdued or disheartened 

 by the new method of war, it served rather to 

 inflame the haughty Iroquoise with the fiercest 

 resentment against the French, They viewed 

 the strangers who were settling in the country, 

 as the most dangerous of all their enemies ; andi 

 it became the first and most important of all 

 objects to carry on a destructive, uinceasing, 

 and exterminating war with them. 



The French were gradually extending their 

 settlements upon the river St. Lawrence, and 

 advancing further and further into the Indian 

 country. In about ten years from the settle- 

 ment of Quebec, they began the foundations of 

 a fort and village at Trois Rivieres ; and in 

 1640 they began a fortress and town at Mon^ 

 treal. Wherever they went, they assisted and 

 encouraged the Algonquins ; and they met 

 with a steady and bitter enemy in the Iroquoise, 

 The hostile Indian nations were an enemy, 

 which the five nations wished to subdue ; but 

 the French were every where the chosen vic- 

 tims, and the objects of their inveterate hatred. 

 To have taught a despised enemy how to con- 

 quer, to have introduced among them weapons 

 every way superior to their own, were crimes 

 which the fierce and savage temper of the 

 hiiUghtiest of all the Indian nations, could not 

 forgive or endure. Thus by interieriiig in the 



