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and had furnished silver communion sets for the Indians, one 

 being now in Canada and the other in Albany. Contracts were 

 made for building forts and chapels in the Mohawk and Onon- 

 daga country, to be finished in 1713. The fort at Onondaga was 

 to be near the town and water, but it was not built, nor was their 

 chapel, so that the articles intended for it always remained at Albany. 



The Indians wished that the war kettle might continue to boil, 

 i. e. the war continue. Dekanissora said they did not fight like 

 the whites. '' When we have war against any nation, Wee 

 endeavor to destroy them utterly." The queen's arms in their 

 castles would not defend them, they wanted powder and ball. 

 Two Onondagas visited Canada; and Governor Vaudreuil sent 

 word by them that he must now make prisoners. The Canadian 

 Indians took the French hatchet gladly, and the western tribes 

 with some hesitation. 



The Delawares carried 32 belts to Onondaga as their tribute 

 in 1712, and had with them a large calumet, given them " upon 

 making their submissions to the Five Nations, who had subdued 

 them and obliged them to be their tributaries." They said some 

 of them were infants when this occurred, so that it could hardly 

 have been earlier than 1650. After a kind reception some Sen- 

 ecas returned with them, bringing belts to the governor of Penn- 

 sylvania and asking friendship and open trade. At this time 

 the Conestogas were at war with the Tuscaroras and other 

 southern Indians, having taken the English side. 



The Senecas were under French influence. As they went to 

 Montreal that year, the Onondagas stopped them, inviting them 

 to a general Iroquois council at Fort Frontenac. This proposal 

 troubled the French ; for it was not usual to treat there. Jon- 

 caire was at Onondaga ; but Vaudreuil sent Longueuil and Chau- 

 vignerie there, as Peter Schuyler had been there twice and had 

 brought Madame Montour and her husband, to remove jeal- 

 ousies created by the French. Before the Montours arrived in 

 August, some of the Indians had gone to Albany, and in spite 

 of the rest the Senecas would go to Montreal. The other four 

 nations continued their meetings at Onondaga and had made 



