hundred houses the Onondagas, a palisaded town of one hun dred and forty houses, and a village of twenty-four houses ; x the ;

Cayugas three towns, and the Senecas four. The capital of the confederacy was the village of Onondaga,

on the lake of that name, the principal settlement of the OnonBishop Cammerhof, who visited it in 1751, says, Onondaga, the chief town of the six nations, situated in a very pleasant and fruitful country, and consisting of five small towns and villages, through which the river Zinochsaa dagas.

"

runs."

In the Relations of the Jesuit missionaries it

" The word

Onnota^ which

signifies

is

said

:

in the Iroquois tongue, a

mountain, has given the name to the village called Onnontae, or as others call it, Onnontague, because it is on a mountain ;

and the people who inhabit it consequently style themselves Onnontae-ronnons, or Onnontague-ronnons."

The great villages of the Onnontagues

consists

of one hundred cabins.

Colonial History, ix, 375. Colonial History, in, 250.

This was

the

number then known.

It

is

subsequently stated that forty towns existed in the three western cantons. Journal of Sullivan s Expedition.

Indian Fort.

ONONDAGA, THE CAPITAL OF THE FIVE NATIONS 1609.

O.F HUDSON'S

RIVER.

THE INDIANS UNDER THE DUTCH THE MANHATTAN WARS FROM THE DISCOVERY TO THE PEACE OF 1645.

ROM the

first hour of Hudson's appearance in the waters of the Mahicanituk, to the last of the domina

tion of Holland, there was an antagonism between

the Dutch and the Indians with whom they came in