372 PRINCE. 



time of year. On one occasion, the Passamaquoddies went to 

 Tlancoivatik, thirty miles west of St. John, N. B., with a small 

 party consisting principally of women and children with the 

 chief and a few braves. At this place they met a number of 

 Micmacs on their way to Passamaquoddy Bay. The Micmac 

 chief being a lover of fair play ordered his men to land on an 

 island to await the coming of a messenger. The other chief 

 sent word that on the following day " the boys would come out 

 to play." As the Passamaquoddy chief had very few men able 

 to bear arms, he made the women attire themselves like war- 

 riors, so that from a distance they might be mistaken for men 

 and directed them to play on the beach shouting and laughing 

 as if entirely fearless. The Micmac chief, deceived by this 

 stratagem and being afraid, summoned his braves to council 

 and setting forth the disasters which had been caused by the 

 long war advised a treaty of peace. This proposition was 

 made to the Passamaquoddies who, wearied by the perpetual 

 state of unrest, gladly acceded to the request. A general 

 council was accordingly called, by which it was decided that 

 " as long as the sun rises and sets, as long as the great lakes 

 send their waters to the sea, so long should peace reign over 

 the two tribes." 



The usual ceremonies for making peace were then observed, 

 as follows : (i) a marriage was contracted between a brave of 

 the challenging people and a maiden of the challenged people. 

 This was regarded as a type of perpetual future good will. (2) 

 A feast lasting two months was celebrated nightly and (3) 

 games of ball, canoe and foot races and other sports were car- 

 ried on. After such ceremonies were over no breach of a 

 treaty is on record, not even a single murder. 



After the great Micmac war was ended, the Passamaquoddies 

 lived at peace except for occasional raids of Mohawks, but the 

 latter finally received a blow from which they never recovered, 

 the details of which are as follows : It was the custom of the 

 Mohawks to make night attacks and at one time, when the 

 Passamaquoddies were at the head of Passamaquoddy Bay," the 

 Mohawks approached the camp, which was called Quenasquam- 



