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mere alliance and treated it as such. At the same time the 

 return of the Indians in France was demanded. 



Hostilities had gone on in the west, where the Iroquois had 

 subdued the Illinois after a six years war. They now turned 

 against the Twightwees, or Miamis, who interfered with their 

 beaver hunting. In 1687 the English gave them a barrel of 

 powder to aid them in this war. 



In 1688 the Iroquois attacked the Mission of the Mountain, 

 killing Haratsion, its chief. Then the French Iroquois began to 

 waver and surrendered their prisoners, 50 of their own men also 

 returning to the New York towns. Kryn stood fast and was able 

 to turn back a Mohawk war party which he met. At this time 

 the Mohawks advised Dongan to build two forts, one at Cayon- 

 hage, at the mouth of Salmon river, and the other at Onjadarakte, 

 now Ticonderoga, both customary landing places. 



A shrewd plan was proposed in Canada for destroying the 

 Iroquois. A party should go against the Mohawks by way of 

 Lake Champlain, while another went by way of Cayonhage or 

 La Famine, thence to Oneida river, where Tethiroguen would be 

 destroyed, and Touenho a little farther south. Onondaga was 

 next to be taken, where the French would winter, and proceed 

 to destroy Cayuga in the spring and return. The party on the 

 Mohawk would also destroy the Oneidas. The plan ignored 

 English interference and was not tried. 



In 1688 a convoy of canoes was surprised near Fort Frontenac 

 by 25 or 30 Iroquois, and 17 canoes were destroyed. In June 

 of that year the great Onondaga chief Hotreouate', or La Grande 

 Gueule, visited Montreal, making several speeches and a decla- 

 ration of neutrality, but obliged the French to give up their allies 

 to their fate. At that time Charlevoix called him by another 

 name. He said : 



When they arrived near Cataracouy, Haaskouan, one of the 

 deputies, called in French la Grande Gueule, advanced from the 

 party, entered the fort, and asked the commandant for one of 

 his officers to accompany him to Montreal. 



The request was granted, but the officer was surprised to find 



