of New York, m, 836. the last war the clandestine trade to Mon treal began to be carried on by Indians from Albany to Montreal. This gave rise to the Konuaga or Praying Indians, who are en tirely made up of deserters from the Mo

hawks and river Indians, and were either enticed by the French Priests or by our mer chants in order to carry goods from Albany to Montreal, or run away from some mis These Indians now chief done here. consist of about eighty fighting men and live about four leagues above Montreal.

no

no

They neither plant nor hunt, but depend

chiefly upon this private trade for their These Indians in time of subsistence.

2,50

zoo

1 320 Colonial History, iv, 337-

The French debauched many of our

Five Nations to their Religion and Inter

drew several off to go and Canada, and laid the foundation of that formidable and fatal reductiog which now forms the Cagnawaga nawar gave the, French intelligence of all Golden, Co designs here against them." " lonial History, v, 732. They became a thorn to the frontier towns and settle ments of New England during the whole of the French war, and of the American

est, actually

Revolution."

live in

bered, in 1745, two

fighting men.

Schoolcraft.

They num

hundred and

thirty

THE INDIAN TRIBES

cooks as well as of

Mohawks and Oneidas*

The Mohawks felt

the loss deeply, and exhausted every effort to reclaim the wan derers, but without avail.