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That year the Oneidas sent Tareha to Canada with peace belts, 

 to arrange an exchange of prisoners. At the end of Lake St 

 Louis were 800 Iroquois, but they did no harm. It was about 

 this time that St Michel escaped from Onondaga, where prepa- 

 rations to burn him were being made. He said that but few 

 desired peace, and that the English had built a strong fort there, 

 which had eight bastions and three rows of pickets. 



Though the Oneidas generally favored the French, it was noted 

 this year that Odongaowa, the long (great) Oneida, the par- 

 ticular friend of Father Milet, was now on the English side. 

 That year many were killed near the Onondaga and Mohawk 

 castles, and the enemy even tied a bunch of reeds to the door of 

 a Mohawk fort. In May the Virginia and Maryland Indians 

 asked Governor Fletcher '' to persuade the Senecas from doing 

 them any harm in their hunting," as they had done. 



Governor Fletcher had a conference with the Five Nations at 

 Albany in July 1693. They called him Cayenquirago, or Great 

 Swift Arrow, in allusion to his name and the speed with which 

 he came to their aid. At this time he made them quite a present. 

 Golden remarked on this : 



The King usually sends them a considerable Present with every 

 new Governor of New York, which is not always applied as it is 

 designed. If this Present had been made sooner, it had been of 

 much more Use to the English, as well as to the Five Nations. 



Dirck Wessel attended a council at Onondaga in August and 

 tried to get possession of Father Milet, but failed. Aquadaronde, 

 chief sachem of Onondaga, was sick, but was brought into the 

 council by four men. This title seems equivalent to that of Ato- 

 tarho, his successor having the same, as well as the council name 

 of the Onondagas. 



In Fel)ruary 1694 a council was held in the street and city 

 hall at Albany. The Onondaga chief could not be present, being 

 sick, which Golden thought a convenient excuse. He was almost 

 helpless the preceding summer, and, when this Albany council 

 was proposed, '' the Onnondages replyed, no, let us send for 

 Quidcr hither with the Maquaes. since Kagueendaronda is not 



