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to the Mohawk village of Canajoharie to study the language 

 there, arriving July 17, 1743. Their stay was short, but he 

 returned with Anton Seyffert and tried to reach Onondaga. The 

 Oneidas would not let them pass. Zeisberger and Post tried the 

 same route in 1745 with less success, but the former reached 

 Onondaga the same year with Spangenberg. When the Iroquois 

 were in Philadelphia in 1749, the Moravians consulted some of 

 them, and Cammerhoff and Zeisberger went to Onondaga by way 

 of Cayuga, seeing some Cayuga towns otherwise unmentioned. 

 From that lake the trail passed the foot of Owasco and Skane- 

 ateles lakes, reaching Onondaga over the hills. The notes on 

 towns and trails are of interest. At Onondaga they were heartily 

 welcomed by Canassatego, before whose house floated a large 

 English flag. They also visited the Seneca towns at much per- 

 sonal discomfort and peril. Their request that two Moravians 

 should live at Onondaga and learn the language was at last 

 granted, and they returned home. A few weeks after Canas- 

 satego died, nor did Cammerhoff long survive. 



Though some of the Catawbas were at peace with the Six 

 Nations, the war still went on and was a constant annoyance to 

 settlers. In 175 1 peace was formally made at Albany. The 

 Catawbas " came down from their quarters, singing, with their 

 colors pointed to the ground, and having lit their pipes, the king 

 and one more, put them into the mouths of the chief sachems, of 

 the Six Nations, who smoked out of them." They also gave a 

 belt having all their towns on it, to show that all wished peace. 

 Next day " the chief sachem of the Senecas lit a pipe, and put it 

 into the mouths of each of the Catawbas, who smoked out of it 

 and then he returned it among the Six Nations." They would 

 complete the peace when prisoners were exchanged, but it 

 amounted to little. 



That year the Six Nations forbade the French making forts on 

 their lands. In their alliance they had now nine castles of Far 

 Indians, or Mississagas, who were Ojibwas or Chippewas. These 

 were settled at Caniahaga and sided with Great Britain. 



