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The Seneca territory had inchided both sides of the Genesee 

 valley, but, when the Huron war broke out, they withdrew their 

 towns to the east side. Most writers make the duration of a 

 town from lo to 15 years. With the use of steel axes in getting 

 fuel the time increased greatly. 



The French at first called the Cayugas Onioenronons, and their 

 principal town and country Onioen. Afterward they termed 

 them Goyoguins, sometimes omitting the first letter. The 

 Moravians called them Gajukas, equivalent to our Cayugas. 

 Though the whole of Cayuga lake belonged to them, they lived 

 mostly at the lower end and on the river below. In early days 

 they were east of the lake, but afterward had several villages on 

 the western shore, and others later on the Susquehanna and its 

 branches. 



David Cusick's name is much like the later French form, and 

 he defines Go-yo-goh as Mountain rising from the Water. L. H. 

 Morgan gave it as Gwe-u-gweh, At the Mucky Land; and 

 Albert Cusick, in accord with interpretations elsewhere, as 

 Kwe-u-kwe, Where they drew their Boats ashore. In every 

 case there may be a reference to the high and firm land above 

 the marshes. Their council name is Soh-ne-na-we-too-na, Great 

 Pipe, and this is their symbol. The Delawares called them after 

 the lake. 



That Champlain, when he came from the Huron country in 

 1615, meant the lake of the Senecas by that of the Entouhonorons, 

 or Lake Ontario, seems very plain. Between Entouhonorons 

 and Sonnontouehronons there is less difference than often occurs 

 in early writers. Champlain had noted that this people had 

 drawn in their frontier towns, something needful to the Senecas 

 alone. The question is rather whether he included some other 

 Iroquois nations with them, as the Dutch did. This seems the 

 case, and his words imply a loose confederation, such as might 

 be expected at first. In describing his map he tells of the fort 

 of 161 5, where he " went to war against the Antouhonorons," 

 elsewhere mentioned as an Iroquois fort. In another place he 

 said this: 



