﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  327 
  

  

  cheeks, 
  not 
  disgusted 
  at 
  all 
  with 
  the 
  remains 
  of 
  the 
  paint 
  and 
  

   grease 
  with 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  lately 
  been 
  besmeared. 
  He 
  gave 
  

   me 
  many 
  blessings 
  while 
  he 
  held 
  me 
  by 
  the 
  hand. 
  

  

  Kirkland 
  had 
  a 
  formal 
  reception 
  by 
  the 
  Senecas 
  and 
  was 
  

   adopted 
  by 
  the 
  head 
  chief. 
  While 
  among 
  them, 
  he 
  visited 
  

   Niagara. 
  In 
  some 
  places 
  they 
  treated 
  him 
  " 
  with 
  no 
  more 
  

   respect 
  than 
  they 
  would 
  shew 
  to 
  a 
  dog." 
  

  

  Johnson 
  had 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  900 
  Delawares, 
  Iroquois 
  etc. 
  in 
  

   April 
  1765. 
  The 
  Delawares 
  leveled 
  the 
  graves 
  of 
  the 
  English 
  

   slain, 
  gathering 
  up 
  the 
  scattered 
  bones, 
  burying 
  them 
  under 
  a 
  

   large 
  pine 
  tree 
  and 
  covering 
  them 
  with 
  a 
  great 
  rock. 
  Johnson 
  

   replied 
  to 
  them 
  May 
  2. 
  They 
  had 
  gone 
  through 
  the 
  ceremony 
  

   of 
  condolence 
  and 
  taken 
  the 
  ax 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  English, 
  

   but 
  they 
  were 
  women, 
  and 
  he 
  never 
  before 
  knew 
  that 
  women 
  car- 
  

   ried 
  an 
  ax; 
  their 
  business 
  being 
  to 
  pound 
  corn. 
  He 
  talked 
  

   severely 
  to 
  them, 
  but 
  afterward 
  made 
  an 
  amicable 
  arrangement; 
  

   then 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  he 
  took 
  them 
  by 
  the 
  hand, 
  and 
  the 
  Six 
  

   Nations 
  also 
  shook 
  hands 
  with 
  them. 
  At 
  this 
  time 
  partial 
  

   arrangements 
  were 
  made 
  for 
  a 
  definite 
  boundary 
  line. 
  

  

  Pontiac 
  was 
  still 
  busy; 
  but 
  Johnson 
  thought 
  an 
  interview 
  

   would 
  set 
  matters 
  right 
  and 
  held 
  a 
  council 
  in 
  July 
  with 
  the 
  Ohio 
  

   Indians, 
  who 
  signed 
  a 
  peace 
  treaty. 
  . 
  The 
  Shawnees 
  also 
  gave 
  up 
  

   four 
  prisoners 
  who 
  had 
  been 
  adopted 
  into 
  families, 
  a 
  thing 
  very 
  

   unusual, 
  and 
  would 
  do 
  so 
  with 
  the 
  rest. 
  That 
  summer 
  Col. 
  

   George 
  Croghan 
  set 
  out 
  for 
  the 
  Illinois. 
  As 
  he 
  was 
  descending 
  

   the 
  Ohio 
  June 
  8, 
  some 
  Kickapoos 
  and 
  Maskoutins 
  captured 
  his 
  

   party, 
  taking 
  him 
  to 
  a 
  village 
  on 
  the 
  Wabash, 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  

   released 
  with 
  apologies 
  and 
  escorted 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  Illinois. 
  Near 
  

   there 
  he 
  met 
  Pontiac, 
  who 
  agreed 
  to 
  yield 
  the 
  French 
  posts, 
  

   reserving 
  the 
  land, 
  and 
  to 
  go 
  with 
  him 
  to 
  Detroit, 
  where 
  Croghan 
  

   held 
  a 
  council 
  with 
  the 
  western 
  Indians 
  and 
  dissolved 
  their 
  

   league 
  with 
  the 
  French. 
  Pontiac 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  chiefs 
  agreed 
  to 
  

   visit 
  Johnson 
  the 
  following 
  year. 
  In 
  these 
  councils 
  all 
  things 
  

   were 
  confirmed 
  by 
  pipes 
  and 
  belts. 
  That 
  year 
  Illinois 
  was 
  in 
  

   the 
  possession 
  of 
  the 
  English, 
  and 
  they 
  had 
  a 
  garrison 
  in 
  Fort 
  

   Chartres. 
  

  

  