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Chapter 7 



Change in Iroquois warfare. Dread of their coming. Ten parties. Bres- 

 sani captured. Iroquois tortures. Pieskaret's success. Prospects of 

 peace. Kiotsaeton. Oneidas adopt Mohawks. Iroquois su(;£ess. Dutch 

 treaty of 1645. French and Mohawk treaty of 1646. Embassy and 

 death of Jogues. Pieskaret killed. His exploits. French ask aid of 

 Massachusetts. Capture of Annenraes by Hurons and his escape. Peace 

 negotiations with Onondagas. Skandawati's death. Fries. Huron 

 towns destroyed. Death of missionaries. Huron towns abandoned and 

 one adopted by Senecas. Overthrow of Petuns and death of Garnier. 

 Neutrals destroyed. Huron treachery. Iroquois extend their conquests. 



The Iroquois now changed the conduct of the war. Instead 

 of sending a few large parties at certain periods, they kept small 

 parties coming and going all the time, so that there was never any 

 safety above Three Rivers. One of these bands brought a letter 

 from Jogues, but it was fired on and they were much enraged at 

 him. The St Lawrence and Ottawa were both closed by 10 

 Iroquois bands in the spring of 1644, and one of these captured 

 Father Bressani, who was afterward ransomed by the Dutch. 



The Hurons were faring badly. One of their frontier towns 

 had been destroyed in the fall of 1642, and a party of 100, return- 

 ing from Montreal, lost all their goods and 20 men in a fight 

 on the way. On the other hand, the Hurons took three of their 

 enemies in 1644, but the i\lgonquins abandoned both their homes 

 and hunting grounds. The fear of the Iroquois was everywhere, 

 so swift were their movements. They came like foxes, attacked 

 like lions, and fled like birds. About this time Father Vimont 

 said : " I would as soon be besieged by hobgoblins as by the Iro- 

 quois. The one is scarcely more visible than the other. When 

 they are afar oi¥, one believes that they are at our doors ; when 

 they throw themselves upon their prey, one imagines that they 

 are in their own land." 



Two of the Iroquois parties mentioned went to the Sault Chau- 

 diere, a place noted for Iroquois ambuscades and Huron defeats. 

 At this spot the Indians used to collect ofiferings in a chaudiere, 

 or kettle, casting it and its contents into the water to procure a 

 safe journey. The third went to the foot of the Long Sault of 

 the Ottawa, and the fourth lay in wait above Montreal. The 



