HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IROQUOIS 233 



being killed in this campaign. Kryn, the Great Mohawk, was 

 with them. Most of these Iroquois would not fight against their 

 eastern kindred, but had no scruples about the distant Senecas. 



De Nonville landed at Irondequoit bay and finished a large 

 fort there, July 12, 1687, leaving a guard of 440 men. On the 

 13th the army marched toward the Seneca towns, with an Ottawa 

 reinforcement. Two defiles were safely passed, but in the third, 

 near the present village of Victor, part of the army was sur- 

 prised by 800 Senecas. Both sides had considerable loss, but 

 the Senecas left the field and abandoned their towns. The Can- 

 adian Iroquois fought well in this engagement, but the western 

 Indians not only showed cowardice but feasted on their dead 

 enemies. 



Next day a large village was entered, most of which had been 



burned, and others in the same condition were visited afterward. 



Formal possession was taken of four towns and one small fort. 



These were Totiakton, Gannagaro, Gannondata, and Gannon- 



garae, with the small fort. Mr O. H. Marshall published maps 



of the march, and the town sites are well identified. De Nonville 



took possession of the villages and also 



All the lands in their vicinity as many and how far soever 

 they may extend, conquered in His Majesty's name, and to that 

 end has planted in all the said Villages and Forts His said 

 Majesty's Arms, and has caused to be proclaimed in loud voice, 

 Vive le RoL 



A vast quantity of grain was destroyed, with many hogs. On 

 the return the stockade was burned, and the army went on to 

 Niagara. There a fort was built, garrisoned by 100 men, which 

 was abandoned the next year. The army returned by the north 

 shore of the lake, usually thought safest, but the south shore 

 had been followed in going, as all the Iroquois villages were 

 thus threatened. 



These things alarmed the Iroquois, and the Onondagas wanted 

 cannon for their fort; but the English thought these useless, 

 and they were not furnished. In November the English king 

 formally received the Iroquois as his subjects, and hostilities 

 against them were forbidden. They probably thought this a 



