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in these, and mass and a Te Deum were sung in the chapel 

 before he left there that year. Lamberville was well received by 

 all the Onondagas except Dekanissora's family, and of them 

 there are conflicting accounts. Joncaire was adopted by the 

 Senecas. That year also Garakontie' 2 died, ceasing only with 

 his last breath his kindness to the French. His nephew took 

 his place as French correspondent at Onondaga. Charlevoix 

 said that the old chief " found more than once the means of 

 defeating the intrigues of the English, and to him we were fre- 

 quently indebted for safety in the most serious difficulties. " 



Lord Cornbury feared the loss of three of the Five Nations; 

 and it was quite generally recognized that English missionaries 

 among them had become a political necessity. In a council in 

 1702 the Iroquois chiefs sang a mournful song on the death of 

 King William. 



In 1704 the Iroquois again had trouble with the western 

 Indians. The Ottawas had carried off 30 Senecas near Fort 

 Frontenac and had treacherously attacked them elsewhere, being 

 determined on war. By good fortune the commander at Detroit 

 was able to restore the prisoners the Ottawas had made. M. de 

 IMaricourt had died, and his brother. Baron de Longueuil, suc- 

 ceeded him at Onondaga. Peter Schuyler sent belts to the Can- 

 adian Iroquois ; but the French got hold of them and had them 

 returned by the Onondagas without answer. That year some 

 Iroquois chiefs were at a council in Pennsylvania, and questions 

 of land and southern warfare brought them there with increasing 

 frequency. 



In 1706 Vaudreuil sent Joncaire to Michilimackinac to main- 

 tain the peace between the Ottawas and Iroquois, the safety of 

 Canada depending on peace with the latter. The Ottawas prom- 

 ised to make reparation, and, though slow about it, at last did so. 



An Indian showed a fine belt of 21 rows at Philadelphia in 

 1706, ''which Belt, he said, was a pledge of peace formerly 

 delvd. by the Onondagoe Indians, one of the 5 Nations to the 

 Nantikokes, when they made the said Nantikokes tributaries." 

 The Iroquois would soon receive this tribute, which had then 



