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came to Onondaga July 24. The first two spoke Iroquois as 

 fluently as French. Among the warlike Onondagas there were 

 as many French partizans as English, and there were slight hopes 

 of retaining them. They needed English ministers, but they 

 said, now they had their prisoners back, they would go to Canada 

 no more. 



At this time five Dowaganhaes, or Ottawas, came to Onondaga 

 to make peace for three strong nations. The French had 

 incited them to hostilities, but they had settled at Tchojachiage, 

 on the north shore of Lake Ontario near the Senecas, and desired 

 peace. With the Iroquois and English they wished " to boil in 

 one kettle, eat out of one dish, and with one spoon, and so be 

 one." The other Dowaganhaes had again killed many Iroquois 

 at French instigation. They would not take the hatchet out of 

 their heads till they submitted to the French and had killed 40 

 Senecas that spring. The French governor ofifered to take the 

 hatchet from the Far Indians if the Iroquois would send one 

 from each nation to treat with him. 



At this time the Mohawks told the eastern Indians that, if they 

 lived not peaceably with the English, they would come and cut 

 them off, and they submitted. 



Governor Bellomont conferred in Albany Aug. 20, 1700, with 

 50 Iroquois sachems, not allotted as in the condoling lists. There 

 were 11 of each nation except the Oneida, and this had six. They 

 were glad to be promised ministers. The French clothed all 

 whom they baptized, but probably the English would not do 

 that. The Mohawks had persuaded Brandt and three others who 

 were going to Canada, to remain and be Protestants. The Pray- 

 ing Iroquois of Canada now numbered 350 men, and their wish 

 to be Christians took them there. 



Colonel Schuyler and all the Albany people opposed the Onon- 

 daga fort, as they wished trade at Albany. The beaver trade 

 had sunk to nothing there, and the Iroquois hunts led to con- 

 stant wars. 



Colonel Romer was in the Onondaga country in October 1700, 

 and has left us a curious map of his travels and the country. 



