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Map 13. — Probable distribution of Iroquoian tribes. Black circles indicate known locations 

 of Black Minqua or Erie groups. 



The second statement, from Gallinee, tells us that in 1668 two 

 canoes of Senecas came to Montreal to trade, and told La Salle 



... of such marvels of the River Ohio, which they said they knew 

 perfectly. . . . They told him that this river had its source three days' journey 

 from Sonnontouan, and that after a month's travel he would reach the Honnia- 

 sontkeronons and the Chiouanons, and that after having passed these and a great 

 waterfall, which there was in the river, he would find the Outagame and the country 

 of the Iskousogos, and finally a country so abounding in deer and wild cattle that 

 they were thick as the woods, and such great numbers of people that there could 

 be no more. [Margry, 1876-86, p. 116.] 



In the following year, 1669, when the Abbe Gallinee attempted to 

 obtain a prisoner from the Ohio from the Seneca to act as a guide for 



