pose he selected a handsome spot of ground on the southern banks of the lake called Teonto, being the sheet of water now known as Cross lake. 1 Here he built a cabin, and took a wife

of the Onondagas, by whom he had an only daughter, whom he tenderly loved, and most kindly and carefully treated and in The excellence of his character, and his great saga structed. city and good counsels, led the people to view him with venera

tion, and they gave him the name of

very wise man.

From all

advice, and in this

manner

Hi-a-wat-ha, signifying a

quarters people all

came to him for

power came naturally into his

hands, and he was regarded as the first chief in all the land. Under his teachings the Onondagas became the first among all

They were the wisest counselors, the best the most expert hunters, and the bravest warriors.

the original clans. orators,

andots, or Hurons, and the Attiouandarons, or neutral nation, north, and the Erigas and

Andastes, or Guandastogues (Guyandots), south of Lake Erie ; the southern, of the Tuscaroras, the Tutelos, and the Nottowas, of North Carolina.

The Tuscaroras and Tutelos removed to the 1714 and the latter 1758, and were incorporated in the Five Nations, the former becoming the north, the former in

in

sixth member of the confederacy, l

Schooler afis Notes on the Iroquois, 273.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

Hence the Onondagas were early noted among all the tribes for

t

"heir preeminence.