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By the Onondages & Senekaes, who say, you delaware Indians 

 doe nothing- but stay att home & boill yor potts, and are like 

 women, while wee Onondages & Senekaes goe abroad & fight 

 agt the enemie. The Senekaes Avoid have us delaware Indians 

 to be ptners wt you to fight agt ye french, But we have always 

 been a peaceable people, & resolving to live so, & being but week 

 and verie few in number, can not assist you ; & having resolved 

 among ourselves not to goe, doe intend to send back this their 

 belt of Wampum. 



In 1695, as he had said before, Louis 14 did not think it proper 

 to continue the reward of 10 silver e'cus (each 60 sous) for 

 every Iroquois killed, nor the 20 e' cus for every male Iroquois 

 prisoner. It cost too much. 



A messenger informed the French that the only Dutchman 

 then at Onondaga was Peter Schuyler's brother. War parties 

 went out against the English from Canada, and the Iroquois 

 had a party watching the Grand river for western Indians. 

 Against the Miamis 200 Senecas and Cayuga's were gone, and 

 100 against the Andastes, as reported ; probably some other 

 southern Indians. They threatened to devour the Miamis, that 

 they might unite the whole earth, but the lake tribes they would 

 not strike. The French persuaded all but the Hurons to make 

 war on them, though they did not wish to do this. A Sioux 

 chief afterward laid 22 arrows on a beaver robe before Fron- 

 tenac, weeping and naming a village for each which asked his 

 protection. 



The Outagamis had spared some Iroquois prisoners, the bet- 

 ter to negotiate. Fearing the Sioux would seize their village, 

 they left it to settle by the Wabash river, where they could unite 

 with the Iroquois and English. Others would join them. 

 Some Hurons, led by a chief called the Baron and with the con- 

 sent of the nations about Michilimackinac, went to the Senecas 

 with 14 peace belts, but most western nations joined Frontenac. 



Peace negotiations had continued till April, when a cruel war 

 recommenced with much loss to the French. An Iroquois party 

 was defeated on Lake Champlain with mutual loss. Word came 

 that the Hurons, Ottawas, Foxes and Maskoutins proposed 



