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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Chapter 
  7 
  

  

  Change 
  in 
  Iroquois 
  warfare. 
  Dread 
  of 
  their 
  coming. 
  Ten 
  parties. 
  Bres- 
  

   sani 
  captured. 
  Iroquois 
  tortures. 
  Pieskaret's 
  success. 
  Prospects 
  of 
  

   peace. 
  Kiotsaeton. 
  Oneidas 
  adopt 
  Mohawks. 
  Iroquois 
  success. 
  Dutch 
  

   treaty 
  of 
  1645. 
  French 
  and 
  Mohawk 
  treaty 
  of 
  1646. 
  Embassy 
  and 
  

   death 
  of 
  Jogues. 
  Pieskaret 
  killed. 
  His 
  exploits. 
  French 
  ask 
  aid 
  of 
  

   Massachusetts. 
  Capture 
  of 
  Annenraes 
  by 
  Hurons 
  and 
  his 
  escape. 
  Peace 
  

   negotiations 
  with 
  Onondagas. 
  Skandawati's 
  death. 
  Eries. 
  Huron 
  

   towns 
  destroyed. 
  Death 
  of 
  missionaries. 
  Huron 
  towns 
  abandoned 
  and 
  

   one 
  adopted 
  by 
  Senecas. 
  Overthrow 
  of 
  Petuns 
  and 
  death 
  of 
  Gamier. 
  

   Neutrals 
  destroyed. 
  Huron 
  treachery. 
  Iroquois 
  extend 
  their 
  conquests. 
  

  

  The 
  Iroquois 
  now 
  changed 
  the 
  conduct 
  of 
  the 
  war. 
  Instead 
  

   of 
  sending 
  a 
  few 
  large 
  parties 
  at 
  certain 
  periods, 
  they 
  kept 
  small 
  

   parties 
  coming 
  and 
  going 
  all 
  the 
  time, 
  so 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  never 
  any 
  

   safety 
  above 
  Three 
  Rivers. 
  One 
  of 
  these 
  bands 
  brought 
  a 
  letter 
  

   from 
  Jogues, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  fired 
  on 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  much 
  enraged 
  at 
  

   him. 
  The 
  St 
  Lawrence 
  and 
  Ottawa 
  were 
  both 
  closed 
  by 
  10 
  

   Iroquois 
  bands 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1644, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  captured 
  

   Father 
  Bressani, 
  who 
  was 
  afterward 
  ransomed 
  by 
  the 
  Dutch. 
  

  

  The 
  Hurons 
  were 
  faring 
  badly. 
  One 
  of 
  their 
  frontier 
  towns 
  

   had 
  been 
  destroyed 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1642, 
  and 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  100, 
  return- 
  

   ing 
  from 
  Montreal, 
  lost 
  all 
  their 
  goods 
  and 
  20 
  men 
  in 
  a 
  fight 
  

   on 
  the 
  way. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  the 
  Hurons 
  took 
  three 
  of 
  their 
  

   enemies 
  in 
  1644, 
  but 
  the 
  Algonquins 
  abandoned 
  both 
  their 
  homes 
  

   and 
  hunting 
  grounds. 
  The 
  fear 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  was 
  everywhere, 
  

   so 
  swift 
  were 
  their 
  movements. 
  They 
  came 
  like 
  foxes, 
  attacked 
  

   like 
  lions, 
  and 
  fled 
  like 
  birds. 
  About 
  this 
  time 
  Father 
  Vimont 
  

   said 
  : 
  " 
  I 
  would 
  as 
  soon 
  be 
  besieged 
  by 
  hobgoblins 
  as 
  by 
  the 
  Iro- 
  

   quois. 
  The 
  one 
  is 
  scarcely 
  more 
  visible 
  than 
  the 
  other. 
  When 
  

   they 
  are 
  afar 
  off, 
  one 
  believes 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  at 
  our 
  doors 
  ; 
  when 
  

   they 
  throw 
  themselves 
  upon 
  their 
  prey, 
  one 
  imagines 
  that 
  they 
  

   are 
  in 
  their 
  own 
  land." 
  

  

  Two 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  parties 
  mentioned 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  Sault 
  Chau- 
  

   diere, 
  a 
  place 
  noted 
  for 
  Iroquois 
  ambuscades 
  and 
  Huron 
  defeats. 
  

   At 
  this 
  spot 
  the 
  Indians 
  used 
  to 
  collect 
  offerings 
  in 
  a 
  chaudiere, 
  

   or 
  kettle, 
  casting 
  it 
  and 
  its 
  contents 
  into 
  the 
  water 
  to 
  procure 
  a 
  

   safe 
  journey. 
  The 
  third 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  Long 
  Sault 
  of 
  

   the 
  Ottawa, 
  and 
  the 
  fourth 
  lay 
  in 
  wait 
  above 
  Montreal. 
  The 
  

  

  