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yet fully disappeared. In a council held in the fort in Quebec in 
1645, the hanging of wampum was described. “In the middle was 
a little space where the Iroquois had placed two poles, and stretched 
a cord from one to the other.. Attached to this were the words they 
bore, i. e. the presents. There were 17 porcelain collars, partly on 
his body, partly in a little sack.” The orator took a collar in his 
hand and spoke, and then promenaded and sang. Le Moyne 
adopted the promenade when he made his Ig presents at Onondaga 
in 1654. ‘At each of my presents they made from the bottom of 
the chest a powerful ejaculation as a testimony of their joy. I was 
the full space of two hours making all my harangue in the tone of 
a captain, promenading after their custom like an actor on the 
. stage.” A council was held with a New England nation at Quebec 
in 1652, in the Jesuits’ hall. “They began by the exhibition of the 
presents, which they stretched on a cord which extended through 
all the hall. Those were only very large collars of porcelain, brace- 
lets, earrings, and calumets or petunoirs.” 
This hanging up of presents is noticed by English writers. Ata 
-conference with Lieut.-Gov. Evans of Pennsylvania, in 1707, “a 
Nanticoke Indian took into his hands a Belt of Wampum from a 
Line, whereon there was hanging nineteen others, and several 
strings of Beads.”—Penn. Minutes, 2:387. When John Bartram was 
at Onondaga in 1743, Conrad Weiser delivered three broad belts 
and five strings of wampum. “ There was a pole laid across from 
one chamber to another, over the passage, on which the belts and 
strings were hung that all the council might see them.”—Bartram, 
p. 60. Weiser also mentioned this. “All the wampum was hung 
over a stick laid across the house, about six feet from the 
ground.” There are other obscure references to this. In 1699 
Goy. Bellomont’s propositions with “ seven hands of wampum were 
hung up in the proposition house.” Two years before Count Fron- 
tenac gave two belts to the Foxes on account of the killing of two 
of their chiefs by the Iroquois. These were “to hang in the cabin 
of the dead, and to remain there until this vengeance be consum- 
mated.” The Iroquois naturally were pleased with attention to 
such forms, and expressed their gratitude to Sir William Johnson 
