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it is so definitely placed on Galinee's map, away from the group 

 of four villages, and near the Genesee that a village should be 

 looked for near West Rush or thereabouts. Gandachiragon may 

 be Gannounata, and probably was. It certainly was not Ganda- 

 gora, Gandougarae or Totiakto, for these are all named in connec- 

 tion with it. 



The Danoncaritaoui mentioned by L,a Hontan evidently 

 means the village of the chief Onnonkenritaoui who was men- 

 tioned by Father Gamier in 1672, as being the most influential 

 chief of the Senecas. He lived at Gandachioragou, so that this 

 village is the same as L,a Hontan's "Danoncaritaoui". 



Belmont says that in Onnenaba dwelt "Ganonketahoui, the 

 principal chief". Onnenaba and Gandachioragou are therefore 

 identical. 



Danoncaritaoui was evidently the chief named in the "Song 

 called the Roll-call of all the Chiefs" as it appears in the Mo- 

 hawk version in Beauchamp's "Councils and Ceremonies of adop- 

 tion of New York Indians" (page 377) as Ka-non-ke-rih-da-wih. 



"Hail, hail. They who were his cousins. 



Hail, hail. These two guarded the doorway. 



Hail, hail. Thou, Ka-non-ke-rih-da-wih. 



Hail, hail. With his cousin 



Hail, hail. Thou, De-yoh-nin-ho-ka-ra-wenh." 



In Hale's Iroquois Book of Rites these appear as Kanonh- 

 kehihtawih and Tyuhninhohkawenh. 



Marshall calls the two chiefs, De-ga-o-yes and Ga-noh-ga - 

 ih-da-wih. 



It is possible that "the Thegaronhies" is identical with "De- 

 yoh-nin-ho-ka-ra-wenh," in which case the two villages of 

 "Onnenaba" and 'Tagarondies" were the villages of the two 

 "door-keepers". Onnenaba is probably an Algonkin word or it 

 may be Belmont's spelling of the unfamiliar Iroquois name of 

 Gannounata. In that case Gandachioragou would be Gannounata 

 and Tagarondies would be Totiakto. 



As late as 1776 these names occur on Governor Pownal's 

 map, Penn. Archives, Vol. II. On it are three Seneca villages, 

 viz.: Chenandoanes and Tegaronhies on the west bank of the 

 Genesee River and Danoncaritow on the east bank. 



