Chap. I] IROQUOIS FAMILY. 27 



In the years 1714-15, the confederacy received 

 a great accession of strength. Southwards, about 

 the headwaters of the rivers Neuse and Tar, and 

 separated from their kindred tribes by intervening 

 Algonquin communities, dwelt the Tuscaroras, a 

 warlike people belonging to the generic stock of 

 the Iroquois. The WTongs inflicted by white set- 

 tlers, and their own undistinguishing vengeance, 

 involved them in a war wdth the colonists, which 

 resulted in their defeat and expulsion. They emi- 

 grated to the Five Nations, whose allies they had 

 been in former wars with southern tribes, and who 

 now gladly received them, admitting them as a 

 sixth nation, into their confederacy. 



It is a remark of Gallatin, that, in their career 

 of conquest, the Five Nations encountered more 

 stubborn resistance from the tribes of their own 

 family, than from those of a different lineage. In 

 truth, all the scions of this warlike stock seem 

 endued with singular vitality and force, and among 

 them we must seek for the best type of the Indian 

 character. Few tribes could match them in prow^- 

 ess, constancy, moral energy, or intellectual vigor. 

 The Jesuits remarked that they were more intelli- 

 gent, yet less tractable, than other savages ; and 

 Charlevoix observes that, though the Algonquins 

 were readily converted, they made but fickle prose- 

 lytes ; while the Hurons, though not easily w^on 

 over to the church, were far more faithful in their 

 adherence.^ Of this tribe, the Hurons or Wyan- 

 dots, a candid and experienced observer declares, 



1 Nouvelk France, I. 196. 



