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  YORK 
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  complained, 
  and 
  Frontenac 
  flung 
  their 
  belt 
  from 
  him, 
  speaking 
  

   of 
  the 
  chief's 
  death 
  as 
  a 
  trifling 
  affair. 
  He 
  would 
  give 
  them 
  

   something 
  worth 
  crying 
  about. 
  In 
  private 
  he 
  talked 
  better, 
  but 
  

   this 
  interrupted 
  negotiations. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  said 
  that 
  94 
  of 
  their 
  

   people 
  had 
  been 
  killed 
  or 
  captured 
  since 
  peace 
  was 
  declared, 
  and 
  

   it 
  was 
  worse 
  than 
  open 
  war. 
  An 
  arrangement 
  was 
  made 
  and 
  

   prisoners 
  were 
  exchanged. 
  Of 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Black 
  Kettle, 
  Col- 
  

   den 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  After 
  he 
  was 
  mortally 
  wounded, 
  he 
  cried 
  out 
  : 
  " 
  Must 
  I, 
  who 
  

   have 
  made 
  the 
  whole 
  Earth 
  tremble 
  before 
  me, 
  now 
  die 
  by 
  the 
  

   Hands 
  of 
  Children?" 
  for 
  he 
  despised 
  the 
  Adirondacks. 
  

  

  Soon 
  after 
  Black 
  Kettle's 
  death 
  Oreaoue' 
  died 
  at 
  Quebec, 
  and 
  

   was 
  buried 
  with 
  ecclesiastic 
  and 
  military 
  honors, 
  " 
  a 
  worthy 
  

   Frenchman 
  and 
  good 
  Christian." 
  A 
  good 
  story 
  is 
  told 
  of 
  his 
  

   religious 
  fervor. 
  Greatly 
  affected 
  by 
  the 
  crucifixion 
  of 
  Christ, 
  

   he 
  said, 
  had 
  he 
  been 
  there, 
  he 
  would 
  have 
  avenged 
  his 
  death 
  

   and 
  brought 
  away 
  the 
  scalps 
  of 
  his 
  enemies. 
  

  

  Governor 
  Bellomont 
  now 
  notified 
  Frontenac 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  sent 
  

   troops 
  to 
  Albany 
  to 
  protect 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  that 
  Lieutenant 
  

   Governor 
  Xanfan 
  would 
  go 
  farther 
  with 
  them 
  if 
  need 
  required. 
  

   Dellius 
  and 
  Schuyler 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  Canada 
  to 
  arrange 
  an 
  exchange 
  

   of 
  prisoners, 
  but 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  preferred 
  doing 
  this 
  in 
  their 
  own 
  

   way. 
  If 
  subjects, 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  submissive 
  ones, 
  and 
  Bello- 
  

   mont 
  found 
  them 
  quite 
  sullen, 
  but 
  succeeded 
  in 
  conciliating 
  them. 
  

  

  There 
  was 
  continual 
  controversy 
  on 
  English 
  and 
  French 
  rela- 
  

   tions 
  to 
  the 
  Iroquois. 
  In 
  1698 
  a 
  New 
  York 
  merchant 
  testified 
  

   that 
  he 
  had 
  lived 
  in 
  Albany 
  since 
  1639, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  Five 
  Nations 
  

   had 
  almost 
  every 
  year 
  since 
  renewed 
  the 
  covenant 
  with 
  New 
  

   York. 
  Colonel 
  Bayard 
  understood 
  . 
  that 
  the 
  Dutch 
  settled 
  at 
  

   Albany 
  in 
  162 
  1 
  : 
  "and 
  ever 
  since 
  that 
  first 
  settlement 
  the 
  Iro- 
  

   quaes 
  or 
  five 
  Canton 
  Indian 
  Nations, 
  have 
  always 
  kept 
  up 
  a 
  good 
  

   peace 
  and 
  correspondence 
  with 
  the 
  Govern 
  1 
  of 
  this 
  Province." 
  

   For 
  60 
  years 
  past 
  they 
  had 
  renewed 
  this 
  almost 
  every 
  year. 
  

   History 
  was 
  uncertain 
  even 
  then. 
  

  

  In 
  1698 
  some 
  Mohawks 
  went 
  to 
  visit 
  their 
  relatives 
  at 
  the 
  

   Sault, 
  remaining 
  some 
  time 
  and 
  being 
  well 
  entertained. 
  Charle- 
  

   voix 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  