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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  That 
  year 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  sent 
  Tareha 
  to 
  Canada 
  with 
  peace 
  belts, 
  

   to 
  arrange 
  an 
  exchange 
  of 
  prisoners. 
  At 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  Lake 
  St 
  

   Louis 
  were 
  800 
  Iroquois, 
  but 
  they 
  did 
  no 
  harm. 
  It 
  was 
  about 
  

   this 
  time 
  that 
  St 
  Michel 
  escaped 
  from 
  Onondaga, 
  where 
  prepa- 
  

   rations 
  to 
  burn 
  him 
  were 
  being 
  made. 
  He 
  said 
  that 
  but 
  few 
  

   desired 
  peace, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  English 
  had 
  built 
  a 
  strong 
  fort 
  there, 
  

   which 
  had 
  eight 
  bastions 
  and 
  three 
  rows 
  of 
  pickets. 
  

  

  Though 
  the 
  Oneidas 
  generally 
  favored 
  the 
  French, 
  it 
  was 
  noted 
  

   this 
  year 
  that 
  Odongaowa, 
  the 
  long 
  (great) 
  Oneida, 
  the 
  par- 
  

   ticular 
  friend 
  of 
  Father 
  Milet, 
  was 
  now 
  on 
  the 
  English 
  side. 
  

   That 
  year 
  many 
  were 
  killed 
  near 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  Mohawk 
  

   castles, 
  and 
  the 
  enemy 
  even 
  tied 
  a 
  bunch 
  of 
  reeds 
  to 
  the 
  door 
  of 
  

   a 
  Mohawk 
  fort. 
  In 
  May 
  the 
  Virginia 
  and 
  Maryland 
  Indians 
  

   asked 
  Governor 
  Fletcher 
  " 
  to 
  persuade 
  the 
  Senecas 
  from 
  doing 
  

   them 
  any 
  harm 
  in 
  their 
  hunting," 
  as 
  they 
  had 
  done. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Fletcher 
  had 
  a 
  conference 
  with 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations 
  at 
  

   Albany 
  in 
  July 
  1693. 
  They 
  called 
  him 
  Cayenquirago, 
  or 
  Great 
  

   Swift 
  Arrow, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  his 
  name 
  and 
  the 
  speed 
  with 
  which 
  

   he 
  came 
  to 
  their 
  aid. 
  At 
  this 
  time 
  he 
  made 
  them 
  quite 
  a 
  present. 
  

   Colden 
  remarked 
  on 
  this 
  : 
  

  

  The 
  King 
  usually 
  sends 
  them 
  a 
  considerable 
  Present 
  with 
  every 
  

   new 
  Governor 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  always 
  applied 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  

   designed. 
  If 
  this 
  Present 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  sooner, 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  of 
  

   much 
  more 
  Use 
  to 
  the 
  English, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations. 
  

  

  Dirck 
  Wessel 
  attended 
  a 
  council 
  at 
  Onondaga 
  in 
  August 
  and 
  

   tried 
  to 
  get 
  possession 
  of 
  Father 
  Milet, 
  but 
  failed. 
  Aquadaronde, 
  

   chief 
  sachem 
  of 
  Onondaga, 
  was 
  sick, 
  but 
  was 
  brought 
  into 
  the 
  

   council 
  by 
  four 
  men. 
  This 
  title 
  seems 
  equivalent 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  Ato- 
  

   tarho, 
  his 
  successor 
  having 
  the 
  same, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  council 
  name 
  

   of 
  the 
  Onondagas. 
  

  

  In 
  February 
  1694 
  a 
  council 
  was 
  held 
  in 
  the 
  street 
  and 
  city 
  

   hall 
  at 
  Albany. 
  The 
  Onondaga 
  chief 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  present, 
  being 
  

   sick, 
  which 
  Colden 
  thought 
  a 
  convenient 
  excuse. 
  He 
  was 
  almost 
  

   helpless 
  the 
  preceding 
  summer, 
  and, 
  when 
  this 
  Albany 
  council 
  

   was 
  proposed, 
  " 
  the 
  Onnondages 
  replyed, 
  no, 
  let 
  us 
  send 
  for 
  

   Quider 
  hither 
  with 
  the 
  Maquaes, 
  since 
  Kagueendaronda 
  is 
  not 
  

  

  