﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
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  I 
  accordingly 
  went 
  among 
  them 
  with 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  soldiers 
  from 
  

   said 
  fort, 
  [Frontenac] 
  making 
  a 
  journey 
  of 
  about 
  seventy 
  leagues, 
  

   and 
  both 
  having 
  large 
  snowshoes 
  on 
  our 
  feet, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  

   snow, 
  which 
  is 
  abundant 
  in 
  that 
  country 
  during 
  winter. 
  I 
  had 
  

   some 
  little 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  language. 
  We 
  then 
  passed 
  

   on 
  to 
  the 
  Honnchiouts 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  the 
  Honnontagez, 
  who 
  

   received 
  us 
  very 
  well. 
  This 
  nation 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  warlike 
  of 
  all 
  

   the 
  Iroquois. 
  At 
  last 
  we 
  arrived 
  at 
  the 
  Gannickez 
  Agniez. 
  This 
  

   is 
  one 
  of 
  Five 
  Iroquois 
  Nations, 
  situated 
  a 
  good 
  day's 
  journey 
  

   from 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  New 
  Netherland. 
  We 
  remained 
  some 
  

   time 
  among 
  this 
  last 
  named 
  nation, 
  and 
  were 
  lodged 
  with 
  a 
  Jesuit 
  

   Father, 
  born 
  in 
  Lyons, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  transcribe 
  a 
  little 
  Iroquois 
  

   dictionary. 
  

  

  In 
  August 
  1675, 
  Gov. 
  Edmund 
  Andros 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  warlike 
  

   Indians 
  nearly 
  100 
  miles 
  beyond 
  Albany 
  and 
  allies 
  of 
  the 
  English. 
  

   This 
  trip 
  was 
  really 
  to 
  the 
  farthest 
  Mohawk 
  town. 
  The 
  next 
  

   year 
  Andros 
  said 
  that 
  King 
  Philip's 
  war 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  pre- 
  

   vented 
  had 
  not 
  the 
  Boston 
  people 
  scorned 
  his 
  advice. 
  He 
  would 
  

   have 
  engaged 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  others 
  to 
  fall 
  on 
  Philip. 
  As 
  it 
  

   was, 
  he 
  kept 
  them 
  from 
  helping 
  him. 
  

  

  In 
  1675, 
  also, 
  the 
  Senecas 
  wished 
  to 
  exterminate 
  the 
  Susque- 
  

   hannas, 
  or 
  Andastes, 
  but 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  said 
  they 
  were 
  their 
  

   brothers 
  and 
  children 
  and 
  might 
  live 
  with 
  them. 
  At 
  this 
  time 
  

   powder 
  and 
  lead 
  were 
  sold 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  Iroquois. 
  There 
  was 
  a 
  

   story 
  that 
  they 
  killed 
  Canonicus, 
  the 
  Narragansett 
  chief. 
  

  

  There 
  came 
  a 
  difficulty 
  between 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  Maryland, 
  

   which 
  Andros 
  aided 
  in 
  settling. 
  That 
  province 
  complained 
  of 
  

   Seneca 
  depredations 
  ; 
  but 
  Andros 
  thought 
  both 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  

   Senecas 
  were 
  good 
  friends 
  of 
  the 
  English. 
  At 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  treaty 
  

   of 
  1677 
  was 
  made, 
  some 
  Oneidas, 
  Onondagas 
  and 
  Senecas 
  had 
  

   gone 
  south 
  and 
  killed 
  some 
  Susquehannas, 
  taking 
  prisoners, 
  not 
  

   knowing 
  of 
  the 
  peace. 
  Part 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  restored, 
  but 
  there 
  

   were 
  many 
  such 
  troubles 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time. 
  Two 
  commission- 
  

   ers 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  Albany 
  about 
  this 
  and 
  reproved 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  

   and 
  Oneidas, 
  but 
  thought 
  two 
  nations 
  not 
  to 
  blame. 
  The 
  Cay- 
  

   ugas 
  made 
  trouble, 
  and 
  Colden 
  thought 
  the 
  French 
  priests 
  the 
  

   cause. 
  

  

  The 
  Mohawks 
  met 
  with 
  a 
  serious 
  loss 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1676. 
  

  

  