An entire company of Ottaivas visiting there Garneau's His were among its victims. 228 , New York His tory of Canada, I, torical

Collections,

Los/Kiel's

2d

series,

Moravian Miss.

n,

249;

1 1 7.

The Mennissinck sachems further said

that one of their sachems and other In to fetch beavor and which they had hunted, and having heard no news of them are afraid that the Sinneques have killed them for

dians

were gone

pelteries

Colonial

the lucar of the beavor, or because the Mennissincks have not been with the

694. This malady was not confined to Charlevoix says any district of country. that in 1 690 not less than fifteen hundred Indians perished in the Canada wilder

Sinneques as usual to pay their duty ; and therefore desire that your excellency will be pleased to order that the Sinneques may be told not to molest or hurt the Mennissincks, they being willing to con tinue in amity with them Schuyler,

be

in

the

month of June."

History, iv, 98. Council Minutes,

ness ; and Ledwick writes in 1692, that of those residing in the vicinity of New

Feb. 1693, Colonial History, iv, 98.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

from their enemies the name of Satans. On terms of peace with, but unsubdued by the Iroquois, their presence inspired the Minsis, and opened up to them a future in which their united war cry challenged the best efforts of their English and Indian foes. Half a century later they could say to their former rulers, the Senecas : " have once been women and ashamed to look down at our petticoats, but as you have taken them off and