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year Frontenac informed Colbert " that, if the principal chiefs 

 had not been gained by his flatteries and presents, not a single 

 Frenchman would have been left in Canada." He certainly did 

 everything possible on this occasion, paying special attention to 

 the women and children. 



In connection with this trip La Salle was several times at 

 Onondaga that year, and Father Lamberville wrote of meeting 

 him at the foot of Oneida lake Sep. 9, 1673. He there heard 

 that the Dutch again held New York. Some Mohawk chiefs 

 visited Governor Colve at Fort Wilhelm Hendrick ]May 19, 1674, 

 who were from Kaghenewage' and Kanagaro. They had made 

 a new treaty with the Dutch the year before. 



King Philip's war was now raging; and he is doubtfully said 

 to have visited the Mohawks in 1675, ^^^^t without securing their 

 aid. He is also said to have murdered some of their stragglers, 

 hoping it would be laid to the English ; but the trick was dis- 

 covered, and the Mohawks became his worst foes. It is only 

 certain that in February 1676, a party of 300 Mohawks did go 

 from Albany and defeated Philip not far away. When attacked 

 by the English near Deerfield Mass., his followers fled, crying, 

 " Mohawks! Mohawks! " so great was their fear of them. 



Garakontie' died at Onondaga soon after Christmas 1675, having 

 been head chief of the Onondagas and Iroquois for many years. 

 He left this message : " Write to the Governor that he loses the 

 best servant he has in the cantons of the Iroquois." Father 

 Lamberville wrote a pathetic account of his death and burial, 

 making his coffin and performing the funeral rites himself. A 

 large cross marked his grave in the present town of Pompey. 

 For more than a score of years he had been known as the friend 

 and father of the French, both in ])eace and war. His brother 

 took his name but not his office, serving the kVench in a quieter 

 way and dying in 1702. The two have been confused. 



Father Hennepin came to Canada in 1675 and at once took up 

 mission work, being part of the time at the Cayuga villages north 

 of Lake Ontario. ]'"'ond of adventure, after a while he wanted to 

 know more of the Iroquois, and said: 



