234 Mr. M° Cau$land*s Obfervations on the 
than thofe who rank before him 111 point of precedency ; but 
this is merely temporary, and dies with him. 
Each tribe has one or two chief warriors, which dignity is 
alfo hereditary, and has a peculiar name attached to it. 
Thefe are the only titles of diftindlion which are fixed and 
permanent in the nation ; for although any Indian may by fu- 
perior talents, either as a counfellor or as a warrior, acquire 
influence in the nation, yet it is not in his power to tranfmit 
this to his family. 
The Indians have alfo their Great Women as well as their 
Great Men , to whofe opinions they pay great deference; and 
this d iff i net ion is alfo hereditary in families. They do not fit 
in council with the Sachems, but have feparate ones of their 
own. 
When war is declared, the Sachems; and great Women gene- 
rally give up the management of public affairs into the hands 
of the warriors. It may however fo happen, that a Sachem 
may at the fame time be alfo a chief warrior. 
Friendfhips feem to have been inftituted with a view 
towards ftrengthening the union between the feveral natrons 
of the confederacy ; and hence Friends are called the fmews- of 
the Six-Nations. An Indian has therefore generally one or more 
friends in each nation. Befides the attachment which fubfifts 
during the life-time of the two friends, whenever one of 
them happens to be killed, it is incumbent on the furvivor to 
replace him, by prefenting to his family either a fcalp, a pri- 
foner, or a belt confifting of fome thoufands of wampum ; 
and this ceremony is performed by every friend of thedeceafed. 
The purpofe and foundation of war parties therefore, is in 
general, to procure a pri foner or fcalp to replace the friend or 
relation of the Indian who is the head of the party. An In- 
dian 
