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an exchange of prisoners was to be made, as promised. The 

 Indians said they would no longer suffer Joncaire or other 

 Frenchmen to live in their country. Waiting for a war call, 

 and so not hunting, they were impoverished and ought to have 

 relief. Johnson had a trying conference with them at his house 

 in August. He had agreed with a smith to go to the Senecas 

 for six months for £70, but there was no bellows there worth a 

 pin. He thought he could get another smith for the same and 

 had sent six months' provision to Onondaga, there being no 

 food there. 



His journey to Onondaga in April and May, he said was '' the 

 most troublesome, fatiguing journey " he ever took, but the kind 

 manner in which the Six Nations received him made amends for all. 

 They were out of humor at the poor results of the war and needed 

 corn, pork and other things. The giving up of the Canadian expe- 

 dition seemed to him ruinous and disgusted the Indians. The Sen- 

 ecas had already expelled Joncaire. The Todirighroones, or Sapo- 

 nies, a tribe of the Catawbas, were now allies of the Six Nations 

 and attended some councils. The Scaniadarighroones, or Nanti- 

 cokes, did the same. They had no vote, but could prefer requests 

 by virtue of their adoption. 



The Mohawks made no Canadian incursions that year, but 

 Governor de la Galissoniere had a council with the Six Nations 

 Nov. 2, 1748, Cachointioni, (Kaghswuhtioni) the Onondaga chief, 

 being present. He was then a French partizan, but afterward 

 became a warm friend of Johnson. They signed a declaration 

 that they were not subject to Great Britain. 



The Cayugas refused to aid the English unless they would 

 fight like men, which they had not yet done, but word came 

 from Ohio that George Croghan was informed " by the Indians 

 that there were 730 Men of us of the Six Nations settled here on 

 Ohio & able to go to War, exclusive of other Nations which will 

 make up as many more." 



A treaty was held at Lancaster July 19, 1748, at which Scar- 

 rooyady was speaker. At the request of the Six Nations, the 

 Miamis were received as friends by the English. Weiser was 



