﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  213 
  

  

  I 
  walked 
  gravely 
  between 
  two 
  rows 
  of 
  people, 
  who 
  give 
  me 
  a 
  

   thousand 
  benedictions, 
  and 
  who 
  load 
  me 
  with 
  all 
  kinds 
  of 
  fruits, 
  

   with 
  pumpkins, 
  with 
  mulberries, 
  with 
  breads, 
  with 
  strawberries 
  

   and 
  others. 
  I 
  kept 
  making 
  my 
  cry 
  of 
  Ambassador 
  while 
  walk- 
  

   ing, 
  and 
  seeing 
  myself 
  near 
  the 
  town, 
  which 
  was 
  scarcely 
  visible 
  

   to 
  me, 
  the 
  stakes, 
  the 
  cabins 
  and 
  the 
  trees 
  were 
  so 
  covered 
  with 
  

   people. 
  I 
  stopped 
  before 
  taking 
  the 
  first 
  step 
  in 
  entering 
  the 
  town. 
  

  

  He 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  captives 
  had 
  been 
  treated 
  with 
  much 
  kind- 
  

   ness, 
  and 
  that 
  Garakontie' 
  had 
  secured 
  them 
  every 
  religious 
  privi- 
  

   lege 
  possible. 
  A 
  bell 
  called 
  them 
  to 
  public 
  worship, 
  which 
  was 
  

   led 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  their 
  best 
  men. 
  Lay 
  baptism 
  was 
  practised 
  and 
  

   much 
  religious 
  instruction 
  given. 
  Le 
  Moyne 
  spent 
  nearly 
  a 
  

   year 
  there 
  and 
  elsewhere, 
  returning 
  Aug. 
  31, 
  1662, 
  with 
  the 
  

   remaining 
  captives, 
  and 
  there 
  was 
  great 
  joy 
  in 
  Montreal. 
  

  

  Mr 
  Shea 
  said 
  that 
  Garakontie', 
  Sun 
  that 
  Advances, 
  " 
  was 
  

   apparently 
  an 
  orator, 
  not 
  a 
  sachem, 
  and 
  not 
  a 
  war 
  chief. 
  He 
  is 
  

   not 
  mentioned 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  settlement 
  of 
  St 
  Mary 
  of 
  

   Ganentaha 
  by 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  writers 
  of 
  that 
  time, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  abso- 
  

   lutely 
  contrary 
  to 
  all 
  authority 
  to 
  make 
  him 
  the 
  projector 
  of 
  

   that 
  movement." 
  One 
  little 
  circumstance 
  should 
  have 
  shown 
  

   this 
  eminent 
  w 
  r 
  riter 
  the 
  error 
  into 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  led 
  by 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  

   Garakontie"s 
  official 
  title 
  for 
  his 
  personal 
  name. 
  When 
  Le 
  

   Moyne 
  drew 
  near 
  Onondaga 
  in 
  1654, 
  he 
  said 
  he 
  dined 
  with 
  " 
  the 
  

   nephew 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  captain 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  who 
  is 
  to 
  lodge 
  me 
  in 
  

   his 
  cabin." 
  In 
  1661 
  he 
  said, 
  " 
  We 
  met 
  a 
  captain 
  named 
  Gara- 
  

   contie', 
  who 
  is 
  the 
  one 
  with 
  whom 
  our 
  fathers 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  taken 
  

   lodging 
  every 
  time 
  we 
  have 
  come 
  into 
  this 
  country." 
  In 
  1670 
  

   he 
  was 
  distinctly 
  called 
  Sagochiendagete', 
  and 
  in 
  1654 
  it 
  was 
  

   Sagochiendagehte', 
  an 
  Onondaga 
  chief, 
  who 
  remained 
  as 
  a 
  hos- 
  

   tage 
  at 
  Montreal. 
  In 
  1657 
  it 
  was 
  " 
  Sagochiendagesite' 
  who 
  has 
  

   the 
  power 
  and 
  royal 
  authority 
  over 
  all 
  the 
  nation 
  of 
  Onontaghe, 
  

   though 
  he 
  has 
  not 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  it." 
  In 
  an 
  address 
  toward 
  the 
  

   close 
  of 
  his 
  life, 
  the 
  chief 
  spoke 
  of 
  his 
  authority, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  use 
  

   he 
  had 
  always 
  made 
  of 
  it 
  for 
  the 
  public 
  good. 
  A 
  letter 
  from 
  

   Onondaga 
  in 
  1671 
  speaks 
  of 
  him 
  as 
  " 
  the 
  most 
  considerable, 
  and 
  

   the 
  chief 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  nations." 
  

  

  Another 
  possible 
  error 
  of 
  Mr 
  Shea's 
  may 
  be 
  noted 
  here, 
  as 
  it 
  

  

  