The Mohawks were shorn of an entire canton of converts the flower of the Mohicans became the trophies of the priests the Senecas, who could call out more warriors than their four associate tribes combined, were detached almost entirely, two small villages only ;

;

hundred years of retaining their allegiance to the English. war and diplomacy gave the French a very strong position, and correspondingly elevated the tribes with which they were in The English were compelled to dictate the removal

alliance.

Mohawks were

of the petticoat from the Lenapes^ while the

reduced to numbers comparatively insignificant, notwithstanding the efforts made to recruit them.

ended had the French

remained

How the contest would have in

possession

of

Canada

and the west, cannot be assumed ; but the presumption is not' unreasonable, that, while the English may not have been swept out of possession, the prowess of the Algonquins would have been chanted where now the notes of applause embalm the memory of the Iroquois.

The inquiry has its specific form in the alleged subjugation of the Mahicans and in the period assigned to the subjugation of the Lenapes as having been anterior to the advent of the

Europeans. The Mahicans were the most formidable com Equal in courage, equal in numbers, petitors of the Iroquois. equal in the advantages of obtaining fire-arms from the Dutch

and in their subsequent alliance with the English, they marched When unsubdued by the boasted conquerors of America. the Dutch first met them they were in conflict with the Mohawks,