302 THE INDIAN OCCUPANCY 



When the news of the death of Annenraes reached Sonnon- 

 touan, preparations were made at once to avenge it. A strong 

 army pushed westward by the Lake route to the Erie country, 

 They found the entire strength of the Erie warriors behind the 

 palisades of the strongly fortified town of Riqne well armed and 

 eager for battle. After the usual negotiations in which it is 

 said that the Eries were offered a place in the Iroquois Confed- 

 eracy if they would surrender, the Senecas attacked. Under 

 cover of their canoes which they used as giant shields, they 

 reached the base of the palisades. Then using the braces of the 

 canoes as ladders they swarmed over the wall. The hand to 

 hand fight that followed was one of the fiercest that even the 

 seasoned Seneca veterans had ever participated in. Knee- deep 

 in blood they fought until the last Eries were killed or captured. 

 That night the forests were lit up by a thousand fires at every 

 one of which an Erie burned. The women and children were 

 dragged home to the Seneca villages there to repopulate the 

 country. The Erie nation was no more. 



The Kahkwahs. 



Our knowledge of the occupation of the Niagara Frontier 

 by a nation called the Kahkwahs is based upon very slight evi- 

 dence. So slight and indefinite is it, that their identity, though 

 the subject of much controversy, has never been established. 



On a map made by Franquelin in 1684 the name "Kakou- 

 agoga" is place! at the southeastern extremity of Lake Erie on 

 the second stream falling into the lake. North of the lake the 

 Neuters are named, and the name "Atiraguenrega" another 

 name for the Neuters is marked on the west bank of the Niagara. 



On a map made by P. Coronelli in 1688 there is marked at 

 a point east of the foot of Lake Erie, which is here much dis- 

 torted, the conventional sign for an Indian village or tribe, and 

 the legend, "Kakougaga, Nation destruite". Beneath this is the 

 legend "Nation du Loup". Both of these legends seem to be 

 embraced by the legend, "Les Cine nation" which extends east- 

 ward from the lake. "Atiragenrega" a name for the Neuters 

 is placed at the head of Lake Ontario. 



On a map made by the same man the next year, 1689, the 

 legend "Kakouagoga, Nation destruite" occurs at the same 

 place, but Nation du Loup is omitted. 



