﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
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  captured 
  30 
  Hurons. 
  A 
  band 
  of 
  150 
  Iroquois 
  was 
  also 
  near 
  the 
  

   French 
  settlements, 
  making 
  their 
  presence 
  known. 
  ' 
  This 
  they 
  

   knew 
  from 
  the 
  little 
  sticks 
  attached 
  to 
  a 
  tree, 
  to 
  show 
  who 
  they 
  

   were 
  and 
  how 
  many." 
  

  

  The 
  older 
  Hurons 
  now 
  wished 
  peace, 
  but 
  some 
  young 
  warriors 
  

   began 
  war 
  against 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  It 
  meant 
  ruin, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  resolved 
  

   to 
  support 
  them. 
  It 
  was 
  then 
  that 
  the 
  Ouenrohronons, 
  a 
  border 
  

   tribe 
  of 
  the 
  Neutrals, 
  sought 
  refuge 
  with 
  the 
  Hurons 
  and 
  were 
  

   hospitably 
  received. 
  They 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  lived 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  and 
  

   suffered 
  much 
  in 
  their 
  removal, 
  the 
  French 
  estimating 
  their 
  jour- 
  

   ney 
  at 
  240 
  miles. 
  

  

  In 
  1639, 
  a 
  party 
  led 
  by 
  Oronkouaia, 
  an 
  Oneida 
  chief, 
  was 
  

   defeated 
  by 
  the 
  Hurons, 
  who 
  killed 
  nearly 
  a 
  score. 
  The 
  leader 
  

   was 
  tortured 
  fearfully, 
  and 
  his 
  hand 
  was 
  thrown 
  into 
  the 
  house 
  

   of 
  the 
  Jesuits, 
  with 
  insolent 
  words, 
  they 
  having 
  baptized 
  him. 
  

   This 
  war 
  involved 
  the 
  Algonquins, 
  who 
  feared 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  

   the 
  Iroquois 
  everywhere 
  and 
  gave 
  the 
  French 
  a 
  thousand 
  

   alarms. 
  

  

  In 
  1640 
  Brebeuf 
  and 
  Chaumonot 
  visited 
  the 
  Neutral 
  country 
  

   but 
  not 
  New 
  York, 
  their 
  outposts 
  being 
  mostly 
  withdrawn. 
  

   Their 
  strength 
  was 
  then 
  estimated 
  at 
  12,000 
  people 
  in 
  40 
  villages. 
  

   Parkman 
  thought 
  that 
  " 
  they, 
  and 
  not 
  the 
  Eries, 
  were 
  the 
  Kah- 
  

   kwahs 
  of 
  Seneca 
  tradition." 
  The 
  Hurons 
  would 
  allow 
  neither 
  

   these 
  nor 
  the 
  Petuns 
  to 
  pass 
  their 
  country 
  to 
  trade 
  with 
  the 
  

   French, 
  and 
  the 
  Neutrals 
  were 
  too 
  poor 
  boatmen 
  to 
  brave 
  the 
  

   waves 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario. 
  

  

  Mr 
  O. 
  H. 
  Marshall 
  also 
  thought 
  the 
  Kahkwahs 
  and 
  Neutrals 
  

   the 
  same. 
  On 
  Coronelli's 
  map 
  of 
  1688 
  a 
  village 
  was 
  placed 
  near 
  

   the 
  site 
  of 
  Buffalo 
  called 
  Kakouagoga, 
  A 
  Nation 
  destroyed, 
  and 
  

   Eighteen 
  Mile 
  creek 
  is 
  called 
  by 
  the 
  Senecas 
  Gah-gwah-geh, 
  

   Residence 
  of 
  the 
  Kahkwahs. 
  This 
  was 
  probably 
  the 
  southern 
  

   boundary 
  of 
  the 
  Neutrals, 
  and 
  Gallatin 
  gives 
  kahquahgoh 
  as 
  the 
  

   Seneca 
  word 
  for 
  south, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  name 
  might 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  

   nation, 
  or 
  position, 
  or 
  both. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  told 
  Schoolcraft 
  that 
  

   they 
  destroyed 
  the 
  Kahkwahs 
  at 
  this 
  creek 
  in 
  1755, 
  and 
  he 
  

   thought 
  100 
  years 
  should 
  be 
  deducted 
  from 
  this. 
  He 
  also 
  gave 
  

  

  