named were present at one time, for they were not at peace with each other ; there is no mention made by the Dutch histo rians of any acknowledgment of subjugation by any of the tribes,

so minutely described in one of the early histories of

New York, 3

and accepted apparently without examination by subsequent The deducible fact is that none of the tribes were writers. granted special privileges, and that there was not the slightest distinction made between them in the terms of the compact.

During the

difficulties

with the Indians in the vicinity of

Fort Amsterdam in 1645, it is said that Director Kieft visited Fort Orange and made a treaty with the Mohawks and Mahicans by which their friendship was secured.

laghan action,

Although O'Calmagnifies J:he consequence of the Mohawks in this trans

and assumes that

"name alone, inspired terror

their

over whom they ; claimed to be sovereign, and from whom they exacted tribute,"

among all the tribes west of the Connecticut

one of the Hurons was killed ; and they celebrated their victory on the field of Yates and battle in dancing and singing.

Moulton.

ing

The incursions of the French explorthe very parties may have been

"northern hordes," to resist whom the confederation was formed in the manner

so graphically described in the story of

Hiawatha.

Ifassenaar,

.

vn, 1 1 }

Doc. Hist., in,

35, 51. * Yates and Moulton's Hist.

Ne-w York,

346, 347. *

Hist. Neio JNetherlandt i, 355.

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. his statements are defeated in the