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

English came in possession of the province, the wars in which the Indians had taken part and were then engaged, the alliances

which they had formed with the French, and the positions which they respectively occupied, made an alliance with the Iroquois but the perfection of a condition of things which had had the

growth of over half a century, and which were destined to still further development.

This fact appears more clearly in connection with contempo raneous events. The settlement of Canada was commenced by Henry IV to Pierre du Gast. In 1609, the year in which Hudson ascended the Mahicanituck,

in 1604, under a patent granted

Champlain discovered the lake which now bears his name. At the Mohawks were at war with the northern tribes, and by the mere force of the circumstances under which he was placed, he formed an alliance with the latter, even agree The first result of ing to assist them against their enemies. this alliance was at a meeting of war parties of the Mohawks and Hurons on Lake Champlain at which the former were