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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  and 
  taken 
  over 
  600 
  prisoners, 
  mostly 
  women 
  and 
  children. 
  De 
  

   Tonty 
  was 
  wounded 
  and 
  a 
  Recollect 
  friar 
  killed. 
  The 
  Miamis 
  

   feared 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  so 
  much 
  that 
  they 
  got 
  the 
  Illinois 
  to 
  seek 
  

   an 
  accommodation. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  justified 
  the 
  war 
  against 
  the 
  

   latter. 
  It 
  began 
  20 
  years 
  before, 
  and 
  the 
  vanquished 
  Illinois 
  left 
  

   the 
  country. 
  Then 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  carried 
  on 
  the 
  war 
  against 
  the 
  

   Andastes 
  vigorously 
  and 
  subdued 
  them. 
  Meantime 
  the 
  Illinois 
  

   returned 
  and 
  killed 
  40 
  Iroquois 
  as 
  they 
  went 
  to 
  hunt 
  beaver 
  in 
  the 
  

   abandoned 
  country. 
  War 
  folloAved, 
  and 
  La 
  Salle 
  unwisely 
  

   increased 
  the 
  difficulty. 
  The 
  Illinois 
  again 
  fled, 
  and 
  the 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  pursued 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  killing 
  and 
  capturing 
  

   hundreds. 
  They 
  were 
  busy 
  elsewhere. 
  In 
  1680 
  the 
  Massa- 
  

   chusetts 
  commissioners 
  said 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  had 
  killed 
  or 
  captured 
  

   60 
  of 
  their 
  friendly 
  Indians 
  in 
  three 
  years. 
  

  

  Till 
  1681 
  Onondaga 
  had 
  been 
  at 
  various 
  places 
  near 
  Lime- 
  

   stone 
  creek, 
  but 
  in 
  that 
  year 
  it 
  was 
  removed 
  to 
  a 
  new 
  site 
  west 
  

   of 
  this, 
  on 
  Butternut 
  creek. 
  Though 
  such 
  removals 
  were 
  fre- 
  

   quent, 
  Father 
  Lamberville's 
  account 
  of 
  this 
  one 
  is 
  unique. 
  He 
  

   said 
  : 
  

  

  On 
  my 
  arrival 
  I 
  found 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  of 
  this 
  village 
  occupied 
  in 
  

   transporting 
  their 
  corn, 
  their 
  effects 
  and 
  their 
  cabins 
  to 
  a 
  place 
  

   2 
  leagues 
  distant 
  from 
  their 
  former 
  residence, 
  w 
  r 
  here 
  they 
  had 
  

   dwelt 
  for 
  19 
  years. 
  They 
  make 
  this 
  change 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  have 
  there 
  

   their 
  firewood 
  in 
  convenient 
  proximity, 
  and 
  to 
  secure 
  fields 
  more 
  

   fertile 
  than 
  those 
  that 
  were 
  abandoned. 
  This 
  is 
  not 
  done 
  without 
  

   difficulty; 
  for, 
  inasmuch 
  as 
  carts 
  are 
  not 
  used 
  here, 
  and 
  the 
  

   country 
  is 
  very 
  hilly, 
  the 
  labor 
  of 
  the 
  men 
  and 
  women, 
  who 
  carry 
  

   their 
  goods 
  on 
  their 
  backs, 
  is 
  consequently 
  harder 
  and 
  of 
  longer 
  

   duration. 
  To 
  supply 
  the 
  lack 
  of 
  horses 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  these 
  

   forests 
  render 
  reciprocal 
  aid 
  to 
  one 
  another, 
  so 
  that 
  a 
  single 
  fam- 
  

   ily 
  will 
  hire 
  sometimes 
  80 
  or 
  100 
  persons 
  ; 
  and 
  these 
  are 
  in 
  turn 
  

   obliged 
  to 
  render 
  the 
  same 
  service 
  to 
  those 
  who 
  may 
  require 
  it 
  

   from 
  them, 
  or 
  they 
  are 
  freed 
  from 
  the 
  obligation 
  by 
  giving 
  food 
  

   to 
  those 
  whom 
  they 
  have 
  employed. 
  

  

  In 
  September 
  1681 
  some 
  Kiskakons 
  captured 
  a 
  Seneca, 
  who 
  

   was 
  killed 
  by 
  Illinois 
  visitors 
  in 
  their 
  village 
  near 
  Michilimacki- 
  

   nac. 
  This 
  alarmed 
  the 
  Ottawas, 
  who 
  feared 
  utter 
  destruction 
  

   and 
  appealed 
  to 
  the 
  French. 
  The 
  western 
  Indians 
  came 
  to 
  Mon- 
  

   treal 
  on 
  this 
  business 
  in 
  1682, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  were 
  invited 
  there. 
  

  

  