HISTORY OF THE NEW YpRK IROQUOIS I7I 



for several days in great discomfort, but the boats were reached 

 in safety. 



Two days later Brule and his Indians came and did nothing. 

 The Iroquois were encouraged, having beaten the white men ; the 

 Oneidas were not destroyed, nor the confederacy severed in 

 twain. The forest fight had far-reaching consequences, though 

 it may be doubted whether the Iroquois had a lasting resentment 

 against the French because of this. Champlain went back to 

 the Huron country, where he spent the winter. The next spring 

 he could get no guides, as the Hurons wished to retain him for 

 another expedition, but at last he got away. Brule spent the 

 winter at Carantouan or Big Tree, and explored the Susque- 

 hanna to the sea. He did not return to the French till 1618, and 

 then had a curious tale to tell. Trying to cross the country of 

 the Iroquois, he fell into their hands, and escaped death by his 

 boldness, tact and good luck. He visited Lake Superior and the 

 copper mines during this period, and at a later day was killed in 

 a Huron town. 



Meanwhile the Dutch were trading on the Hudson, as far as 

 the head of navigation, and two maps have been published 

 assigned to 1614 and 1616, containing a good deal relating to 

 the interior west of that river. One of these is partly repro- 

 duced, and is on a smaller scale than the older one. The latter 

 has the Maquaas on the north side of the Mohawk river, and on 

 the south side the Canoomakers, probably an Indian and not 

 European word. South of a large lake are the Senecas, and on 

 what may be the Chemung at Carantouan are the Gachoos. The 

 Capitanasses and Minquaas are farther down the Susquehanna, 

 the latter people extending far eastward. Between these, but 

 farther west, are the lottecas. This is the map of 1614, and the 

 maker of it said : 



Of what Kleynties and his Comrade have Communicated to me 

 respecting the locality of the Rivers, and the position of the 

 Tribes which they found in their Expedition from the Maquaas 

 into the interior and along the New River downwards to the 

 Ogehage, (that is to say, the Enemies of the aforesaid northern 

 tribes,) I can not at present find any thing at hand, except two 



