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The wars with the Ottawas and the Andastes were still be- 

 ing pushed vigorously, but this year (or the next) the Senecas 

 met with a reverse at the hands of the Andastes, and that in a 

 most humiliating fashion. A war party of forty Cayugas and 

 twenty Senecas had gone out against them and were returning 

 in canoes in two divisions. Sixty Andaste boys overtook the 

 rear division and routed it and immediately followed up their 

 victory by pursuing and overtaking the advance division which 

 they attacked so vigorously that it fled. Eight Cayugas and a 

 Seneca were killed and many were wounded. 



?In 1672 Father Pierre Raffeix, who 

 ->, . fi had taken the place of Father Carheil at 



^y"^* £- •/» Cayuga, was assigned as helper to Father 

 Gamier at Sonnontouan, and when he ar- 

 rived there, was given the mission of La Conception at Totiakto. 

 Meanwhile the Christian party was not increasing. Father 

 Gamier reported (*1) that the sachems of Gandachioragou had 

 declared in council that they wished to adopt the custom of 

 praying but that rumors of war with the French had embittered 

 them and their hostility had been increased through stories told 

 by a Cayuga. He had stated that of the families who had be- 

 come Christians not one]was left alive, and that the black-gowns 

 were really spies of Onontio, the French governor at Quebec 

 who had sent them there to kill off the Senecas by sorcery. 

 These stories had the desired effect. Garnier's life was threat- 

 ened and he was warned that if the French invaded Sonnontouan 

 he would be brained. His host, Onnonkenritaoui, the most in- 

 fluential man in the nation'wished only to kill him because of the 

 frequent sickness of his favorite niece, brought on, he thought, 

 by the evil designs of Garnier. Christianity fell into disfavor, 

 yet Garnier reported that he knew of nearly two hundred pagan 

 families who lived upright moral lives. That Garnier was an 

 agent of the French government is made plainly evident in a let- 

 ter to the Governor in which he stated he had made known to 

 the Senecas the orders which La Salle had brought. (*2) 



The mission of St. Jacques at Gandagora was still in 1672 

 without a chapel or a resident priest. (*3) Many of its people 



*i Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., L/VI, 57. 

 *2 Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., I/VIII, 27. 



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3 Jesuit Relations, Burrows ed., L/VII, 191:. 



