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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  year 
  Frontenac 
  informed 
  Colbert 
  " 
  that, 
  if 
  the 
  principal 
  chiefs 
  

   had 
  not 
  been 
  gained 
  by 
  his 
  flatteries 
  and 
  presents, 
  not 
  a 
  single 
  

   Frenchman 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  left 
  in 
  Canada." 
  He 
  certainly 
  did 
  

   everything 
  possible 
  on 
  this 
  occasion, 
  paying 
  special 
  attention 
  to 
  

   the 
  women 
  and 
  children. 
  

  

  In 
  connection 
  with 
  this 
  trip 
  La 
  Salle 
  was 
  several 
  times 
  at 
  

   Onondaga 
  that 
  year, 
  and 
  Father 
  Lamberville 
  wrote 
  of 
  meeting 
  

   him 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  Oneida 
  lake 
  Sep. 
  9, 
  1673. 
  He 
  there 
  heard 
  

   that 
  the 
  Dutch 
  again 
  held 
  New 
  York. 
  Some 
  Mohawk 
  chiefs 
  

   visited 
  Governor 
  Colve 
  at 
  Fort 
  Wilhelm 
  Hendrick 
  May 
  19, 
  1674, 
  

   who 
  were 
  from 
  Kaghenewage' 
  and 
  Kanagaro. 
  They 
  had 
  made 
  

   a 
  new 
  treaty 
  with 
  the 
  Dutch 
  the 
  year 
  before. 
  

  

  King 
  Philip's 
  war 
  was 
  now 
  raging; 
  and 
  he 
  is 
  doubtfully 
  said 
  

   to 
  have 
  visited 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  in 
  1675, 
  but 
  without 
  securing 
  their 
  

   aid. 
  He 
  is 
  also 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  murdered 
  some 
  of 
  their 
  stragglers, 
  

   hoping 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  laid 
  to 
  the 
  English 
  ; 
  but 
  the 
  trick 
  was 
  dis- 
  

   covered, 
  and 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  became 
  his 
  worst 
  foes. 
  It 
  is 
  only 
  

   certain 
  that 
  in 
  February 
  1676, 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  300 
  Mohawks 
  did 
  go 
  

   from 
  Albany 
  and 
  defeated 
  Philip 
  not 
  far 
  away. 
  When 
  attacked 
  

   by 
  the 
  English 
  near 
  Deerfield 
  Mass., 
  his 
  followers 
  fled, 
  crying, 
  

   " 
  Mohawks 
  ! 
  Mohawks 
  ! 
  " 
  so 
  great 
  was 
  their 
  fear 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  Garakontie' 
  died 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  soon 
  after 
  Christmas 
  1675, 
  having 
  

   been 
  head 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  and 
  Iroquois 
  for 
  many 
  years. 
  

   He 
  left 
  this 
  message 
  : 
  " 
  Write 
  to 
  the 
  Governor 
  that 
  he 
  loses 
  the 
  

   best 
  servant 
  he 
  has 
  in 
  the 
  cantons 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois." 
  Father 
  

   Lamberville 
  wrote 
  a 
  pathetic 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  death 
  and 
  burial, 
  

   making 
  his 
  coffin 
  and 
  performing 
  the 
  funeral 
  rites 
  himself. 
  A 
  

   large 
  cross 
  marked 
  his 
  grave 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  town 
  of 
  Pompey. 
  

   For 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  score 
  of 
  years 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  friend 
  

   and 
  father 
  of 
  the 
  French, 
  both 
  in 
  peace 
  and 
  war. 
  His 
  brother 
  

   took 
  his 
  name 
  but 
  not 
  his 
  office, 
  serving 
  the 
  French 
  in 
  a 
  quieter 
  

   way 
  and 
  dying 
  in 
  1702. 
  The 
  two 
  have 
  been 
  confused. 
  

  

  Father 
  Hennepin 
  came 
  to 
  Canada 
  in 
  1675 
  and 
  at 
  once 
  took 
  up 
  

   mission 
  work, 
  being 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  time 
  at 
  the 
  Cayuga 
  villages 
  north 
  

   of 
  Lake 
  Ontario. 
  Fond 
  of 
  adventure, 
  after 
  a 
  while 
  he 
  wanted 
  to 
  

   know 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  