﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  I93 
  

  

  dors, 
  the 
  first 
  Hurons 
  to 
  go 
  there 
  in 
  that 
  way. 
  These 
  left 
  home 
  

   Aug. 
  1, 
  1647, 
  and 
  were 
  in 
  Onondaga 
  20 
  days 
  later, 
  where 
  they 
  

   were 
  warmly 
  received 
  and 
  feasted 
  for 
  a 
  month. 
  A 
  second 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  embassy 
  returned 
  with 
  them, 
  headed 
  by 
  Skandawati, 
  a 
  

   noted 
  chief, 
  60 
  years 
  old. 
  Two 
  others 
  were 
  with 
  him 
  and 
  he 
  

   brought 
  back 
  15 
  Huron 
  captives. 
  They 
  were 
  30 
  days 
  on 
  the 
  

   way, 
  reaching 
  the 
  Hurons 
  Oct. 
  23. 
  At 
  this 
  time 
  the 
  Onon- 
  

   dagas 
  and 
  Cayugas 
  favored 
  peace 
  ; 
  the 
  Senecas 
  and 
  Mohawks 
  

   opposed 
  it. 
  

  

  In 
  January 
  1748 
  a 
  new 
  Huron 
  embassy 
  was 
  sent 
  with 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  Onondagas, 
  two 
  remaining 
  as 
  hostages. 
  This 
  was 
  attacked 
  

   by 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  some 
  Hurons 
  were 
  killed. 
  Early 
  in 
  April 
  

   Skandawati 
  disappeared 
  and 
  was 
  found 
  dead 
  by 
  his 
  own 
  hand, 
  

   lying 
  on 
  the 
  bed 
  of 
  cedar 
  boughs 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  prepared. 
  His 
  

   companion 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  knew 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  do 
  a 
  thing 
  like 
  this 
  ; 
  that 
  which 
  hath 
  

   cast 
  him 
  into 
  this 
  desperation 
  is 
  the 
  shame 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  in 
  seeing 
  

   that 
  the 
  Sonnontoueronnons 
  and 
  Annieronnons 
  come 
  here 
  to 
  

   massacre 
  you, 
  even 
  over 
  your 
  frontiers 
  ; 
  for 
  though 
  they 
  are 
  your 
  

   enemies 
  they 
  are 
  our 
  allies, 
  and 
  they 
  ought 
  to 
  have 
  shown 
  us 
  

   this 
  respect, 
  that 
  having 
  come 
  here 
  on 
  an 
  embassy, 
  they 
  should 
  

   defer 
  any 
  evil 
  stroke 
  till 
  after 
  our 
  return. 
  

  

  In 
  one 
  of 
  their 
  attacks 
  near 
  St 
  Ignace, 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  killed 
  or 
  

   captured 
  40 
  Hurons, 
  and 
  the 
  Senecas 
  over 
  30 
  in 
  another 
  place. 
  

   Some 
  Huron 
  towns 
  were 
  abandoned. 
  In 
  a 
  hunting 
  party 
  

   attacked 
  by 
  the 
  Senecas 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  hostages. 
  

   They 
  forced 
  him 
  to 
  be 
  present 
  when 
  they 
  took 
  another 
  party, 
  

   giving 
  him 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  prisoners. 
  He 
  demanded 
  to 
  be 
  sent 
  back 
  

   to 
  the 
  Hurons, 
  being 
  an 
  ambassador, 
  saying 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  " 
  die 
  

   with 
  them 
  sooner 
  than 
  to 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  acted 
  as 
  their 
  enemy." 
  

   He 
  was 
  allowed 
  to 
  return 
  with 
  his 
  captive. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Relation 
  of 
  1648 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  circumstantial 
  mention 
  of 
  

   the 
  Eries. 
  In 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  sedentary 
  nations 
  in 
  1635 
  they 
  appear 
  

   as 
  the 
  Rhiierrhonons, 
  and 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  1639 
  as 
  the 
  Eriehronon. 
  

   From 
  that 
  of 
  1648 
  we 
  may 
  infer 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  at 
  a 
  considerable 
  

   distance 
  from 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  probably 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  and 
  

  

  