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Mr McLachlan kindly furnished figures of some medals. Fig. 

 282 shows one of these, and his description follows : 



Obverse, Montreal ; in the exergue, DCF stamped in a sunk 

 oval. A view of a walled town with a body of water in the fore- 

 ground, into which a small stream flows. There are five church 

 spires ranged along the middle of the town, and a flag displaying 

 St George's cross to the right. Reverse. Plain ; Onondagos is en- 

 graved in capitals across the field, and the name Tekahonwaghse in 

 script at the top. Some one has, at a later time, scratched across the 

 lower part with a sharp pointed instrument, in three lines, | Taken 

 from an Indian ] cheif in the American [ War, 1761.] 



Mr Betts also illustrated and described this medal. 



In the addition there is an evident error for there was no war in 

 that year, but, if it were 1781, it would correspond with the American 

 war, as the English termed that of the Revolution. Allowing this 

 date, Tekahonwaghse might be Takanaghkwaghscn , an Onondaga 

 •chief who signed the treaty of 1788, or Tagonaghqua ghsc , appointed 

 chief warrior of that nation in 1770, and perhaps the chief of 1788. 

 Mr McLachlan had this medal from the Bushnell collection. He 

 added, " I know of another in the collection of James Oilier of New 

 Yi irk. I am under the impression that it is also in silver, and that it 

 bears the name Onondagos." No account could be obtained of this. 



Fig. 283 is a similar silver medal, bought by Mr McLachlan in 

 London. On the reverse this has Mohawks in the field, and Aruntes 

 above. It is in extra fine condition. This name does not appear 

 among the many on record in the French war, nor is there any 

 resembling it, but " The Answer of Thayendanegea a Sachem, and 

 of Ohrante a warrior of the Mohocks to the Right Hon ble Lord 

 George Germaine". London, May 7, 1776, is preserved in full. 

 O'Callaghan. Col. Hist. 8:678 



Those familiar with the great variations in spelling Indian names, 

 and the rank of this person, will have little doubt that Ohrante and 

 Aruntes are the same. It is a curious coincidence that this well pre- 

 served medal was obtained in London, where Ohrante spent some 

 months. In another place the Mohawk warrior is called Oterough- 

 yanento, Indians often having two names. In the writer's exhaustive 

 list of Iroquois personal names this nowhere else appears, but it is 

 .an unexpected gratification to link the three Iroquois names ob- 



