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the latter, he said, they dwelt on a great water to the 

 North, that they had many boats, and so many men, 

 that they waged with /ill the rest of the world. The 

 Mingo confederacy then consisted of five tribes; three 

 who are the elder, to wit, ihe Senecas, who live to the 

 West, the Mohawks to the East, and the Onondagas 

 between them ; and two who are called the yonnger 

 tribes, namely, the Cayugas and Oneidas. All these 

 tribes speak one language, and were then united in a 

 close confederacy, and occupied the tract of country 

 from the east end of lake Erie to lake Champlain, and 

 from the Kittatinney and Highlands to the Lake Onta- 

 rio and the river Cadaraqui, or St Lawrence. They 

 had sometime before that, carried on a war with a na- 

 tion, who lived beyond the lakes, and were Adirondacs. 

 In this war they were worsted : but having made a 

 peace with them, through the intercession of the French 

 who were then settling Canada, they turned their arms 

 against the Lenopi ; and as this war was long and 

 doubtful, they, in the course of it, not only exerted 

 their whole force, but put in practice every measure 

 which prudence or policy could devise to bring it to a 

 successful issue. For this purpose they bent their 

 course down the Susquehannah, and warring with the 

 Indians in their way, and having penetrated as far as the 

 mouth of it, they, by the terror of their arms, engaged 

 a nation, now known by the name of Nanticocks, Co- 

 noys, and Tuteloes, and who lived between Chesapeake 

 and Delaware bays, and bordering on the tribe of Chio- 

 hocki, to enter into an alliance with them. They also 

 formed an alliance with the Monakans, and stimulated 

 them to a war with the Lenopi and their confederates. 

 At the same time the iMohawks carried on a furious war 

 down the Hudson against the Mohiccons and River In- 

 dians, and compelled them to purchase a temporary and 

 precarious peace, by acknowledging them to be their 

 superiors, and paying an annual tribute. The Lenopi 

 being surrounded with enemies, and hard pressed, and 

 having lost many of their warriors, were at last com- 

 pelled to sue for peace, which was granted to them on 



