No promise did he give, he and appreciated however, ^would enforce the divine " Lead us not into command, temptation," by preventing the and the of rum sale consequent plunder by which the Christian that

name was

reproached.

Commanding them to

distribute their

presents equally between those living above Albany and those he dismissed them. living below Albany, The New England provinces maintained war with the east ern Indians for some years after peace had been established with

France.

The doctrine that the Indians

had no rights which

Christians were bound to respect, was firmly held by the suc cessors of Underbill and Church, who hesitated not to provoke

But and continue hostilities when peace was within their reach. well as disastrous, and the authorities

the war grew tedious as

there appealed to the Iroquois to take up the hatchet in their The latter made loud protestations of what they would behalf. do, but contented themselves with hiding the hatchet in their bosoms and sending messengers to the Abtnaquit. year later

(1724), the

New England commissioners remonstrated with them,

This overture was not to the Five were there entertained with a feast and Nations alone, but embraced the Mahlpresents, as was customary in such negoNiks' History, Massachusetts cans and Schaticooks. Delegates from the., tiations. Historical Collections^ v, 347. tribes named were invited to Boston, and

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

and charged that they had not only laid the hatchet by their The reply side, but had accomplished nothing by negotiation.

" The matter of peace rests with you," said their " whenever have the lands which will