372 THE SENECA NATION 



In 1675 (*l) it is stated that Fathers Pierron, Raffeix and Gamier 

 labor there in three villages. 



In 1677 Wentworth Greenhalgh, an Englishman, left Albany 

 and visited all the cantons of the Iroquois. Of the Senecas he 

 said; v*2) "The Senecques have four towns, viz. Canagora, Tiote- 

 hatton, Canoenada and Keint-he. Canagora and Tiotohatton lye 

 within 30 miles of ye L,ake ffrontenacque, and ye other two ly 

 about four or five miles apiece to ye Southward of those. They 

 have abundance of Corne. None of their townes are stockadoed. 



' 'Canagorah lyes on the top of a great hill, and in that, as well 

 as in the bignesse, much like Onondago, contayning 150 houses, 



northwestward of Caiouge 72 miles Tiotohatton lyes 



on the brincke or edge of a hill, has not much cleared ground; it 

 is near the river Tiotehatton, wch signifies bending. It lyes to 

 westward of Canagorah about 30 miles, containing about 120 

 houses, being the largest of all the houses wee saw, ye ordinary 

 being about 50 @ 60 foot long with 12 @ 13 fires in one house. 

 They have good store of corne, growing about a mile to the North- 

 ward of the towne. 



"Canoenada lyes about four miles to ye Southward of Cana- 

 gorah; conteynes about 30 houses, well furnished with corne. 



"Keint-he lyes aboutt four or five miles to ye southward of 

 Tietehatton; contaynes about 24 houses well furnished with 

 corne " 



The writer of the Relation for 1679 differed radically from 

 Greenhalgh in his enumeration of the villages. He said that (*3) 

 "25 leagues farther on" (from Cayuga) "are situated the three 

 villages of the Sonnontouans." 



In December, 1678, Louis Hennepin, a Recollet priest, and 

 L,a Motte, two of the party accompanying L,a Salle in his expedi- 

 tion to explore the Mississippi River, were ordered by him to 

 visit the Senecas and to obtain leave, if possible, to build a boat 

 above Niagara Falls. They went overland from the Niagara and 

 reached the Senecas from the west, arriving in five days at "Tag- 

 arondies," (*4) where Father Hennepin preached in the presence 

 of Fathers Gamier and Raffeix. 



*i Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., LIX, 251. 

 *2 Documentary History of New York, Vol. II, p. 11. 

 *3 Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., LXI, 159. 



*4 Hennepin, A New Discovery of a Large Country in America, Chap. 

 XV, Thwaite. 



