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

New

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

a recorded conquest by them that

The Eries were seated on the southern

is

not tinged by the unmisbeen the same with the Erics ; by others

shores of the lake which still bears their f that they were subsequently the Hurons. name. Schoolcraft. only know that they were

known

as

We

an Iroquois tribe, and that they were de-

The GabGallatin. stroyed in 1655. favas, or Kakkwahs, were also an Iroquois tribe,

and are supposed by some to have

a

The Susquehannocks were seated on

the Susquehanna river and Chesapeake

They were defeated, in conflict with the English, at their fort near Cobay.

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takeable fact that the subjugated tribe was contending against civilized as well as In their early wars the Dutch savage foes.

took no part, except to exchange for their furs the munitions of war which they wanted, and to cultivate with them, for the pur poses of trade, peace and friendship. To both, this friendly inter course was desirable, and to both a necessity. When* the