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beads to serve as wood and fuel, and added a large belt to these.— 
Leclerq, 1:126. A similar incident is related of the Mohawks in. 
1646; and this writer seems to have mistaken the date. The Al- 
gonquin use of belts in Canada is often mentioned. To some ex- 
tent this family used wampum in this form in New York. Among 
the plunder in one Indian fort in the Esopus war of 1663 were 31 
belts and some strings of wampum. 
Negotiations with the Iroquois brought a great deal of wampum 
into Canada. When the Mohawk chief, Kiotsaeton, came to Quebec 
in 1645, “he was as it were covered with porcelain.” He brought 
17 collars or belts, part on his body, part in a little sack. Of the 1oth 
belt it is said, “this collar is extraordinarily fine.’ By the 13th he 
referred to some Huron preparations for peace proposals five years 
before, when that people “had a sack full of wampum all prepared to 
come to seek the peace.” This they should have done. After this 
Mohawk belts often came to Canada in a less formal way. The 
same year ambassadors brought 18 of these. The first Onondaga 
presents made at Quebec in 1653 were but seven in number, and 
consisted of wampum and beaver skins. A great belt from the 
Oneidas accompanied these. At the same time the Mohawks made 
eight presents. The next February the Onondagas came again 
with six great belts for the French. They secretly gave four others 
to the Hurons. This was preliminary to another council in May, 
when the Onondagas presented 20 belts to confirm the peace. 
Father Le Moyne’s first visit to that people soon followed. After 
he had made his 19 presents, the Onondaga speaker returned thanks 
for the Onondagas, Mohawks and Senecas by two great belts for 
each. An Oneida chief also returned thanks by four great belts. 
In September 1655, another Onondaga embassy came with “ 24 
collars of porcelain, which to the eyes of the savages are the pearls 
and diamonds of this land.” Chaumonot and Dablon returned with 
this party and made their presents. The Onondagas replied, cast- 
ing their first two presents at Chaumonot’s feet. “The third and 
the most beautiful of all those which appeared here, was a collar 
composed of seven thousand grains of porcelain, which was as 
