"From their ancient fortresses," says one of their ardent but not alto gether truthful admirers, "war parties continually went forth ; their war-cry sounded from the lakes to the far west, and rolled

along the banks of the Mississippi and over the far-off fields of the south. They defeated the Hurons under the very walls of

Quebec, put out the council-fires of the Gakkwas and the Eries* eradicated the Susquehannocks 2 and placed the Lenapes, under tribute. The terror of their name went wherever their war canoes paddled, and nations trembled when they heard the name of Konoshioni." Another asserts that "long before

European discovery, the question of savage supremacy had been " Cahohatatea ; that the " invinci " " In ble arms of the humbled native foe." settled on the waters of the

every

Iroquois

view of the undeniable

is not a single wellattested case of subjugation by the Iroquois until nearly half a " European discovery," these fulsome panegyrics century after

fact that there

may very properly be subjected to analysis. While conceding

to

the Iroquois, and to their immediate

representative on'the Hudson, the Mohawks, much of the credit

which has been claimed

for them, justice to other nations will

compel the acknowledgment that the former were aided in their conquests and preserved in their integrity to a very great extent by their early alliances with the Europeans, and especially by

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their constitution, by the English of York, as an armed tribes and the unarmed over ; further, that there is scarce police