234 THE THREE WAR-PARTIES. 



One untoward accident damped the general joy 

 for a moment. A party of Iroquois Christians from 

 the Saut St. Louis had made a raid against the 

 English borders, and were returning with prisoners. 

 One evening, as they were praying at their camp 

 near Lake Champlain, they were discovered by a 

 band of Algonquins and Abenakis who were out 

 on a similar errand, and who, mistaking them for 

 enemies, set upon them and killed several of their 

 number, among whom was Kryn, the great Mo- 

 hawk, chief of the mission of the Saut. This mis- 

 hap was near causing a rupture between the best 

 Indian allies of the colony ; but the difference was 

 at length happily adjusted, and the relatives of the 

 slain propitiated by gifts. 1 



1 The attacking party consisted of some of the Abenakis and Algon- 

 quins who had been with Hertel, and who had left the main body after 

 the destruction of Salmon Falls. Several of them were killed in the 

 skirmish, and among the rest their chief, Hopehood, or Woliawa, " that 

 memorable tygre," as Cotton Mather calls him. 



