New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with their Indian allies, under the walls of Quebec. 2 Roasted

colonial forces of

oxen, barrels of beer, the firing of cannon, and some

"

private

presents" to the proper chiefs, completed the work, and all pro fessed their readiness to march at the queen's command.

The French were not idle spectators of these preparations, and in their efforts to defeat them brought out in strong colors the power and influence which they had established over their Indian

allies

A great war festival was

through their priests.

held at Montreal, and the war song chanted by seven or eight hundred warriors, many of whom were the flower of the Iroquois

and Mahican nations, whom the priests had drawn thither.

harie

among the Delawares, but is not The Canajoby the record. chief, whose name is not given,

died

in

chiefs

sustained

England soon

The first

after

his arrival,

conference after their

return

was held at Albany, Aug. 10, 1711, of which the record says : "Some of ye sachems of ye Five Nations and river Indians, particularly those lately come from

Great Britain, waited upon His ExcelGov. Hunter," &c. Colonial

lency,

History, v, 217. Colonial History, v, 267, etc. a

Bancroft, in, 221, etc.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

*

From the far west the response was even more enthusiastic. Tribe after tribe, even the Osages and Missouri*, sprang to the " " be relief of the French. Father," said they to Vaudreuil, if need hold thy children compass thee round. will, be,