open between this place and Canada, and trade te free both going and coming, and so the way is open between this place and Albany and the Six Nations, and if a war should break out is

and we should use the hatchet that lays by our side, those paths

which are now open would be stopped and if we should make war it would not end in a few days as yours doth, but it must last till one nation or the other is destroyed. have been ;

We

three times with the eastward Indians and could not prevail, and

we know what whipping and scourging is from the governor of Canada.

The eastern Indians seem to be inclined to peace, and

inasmuch as we have tried three times and could not effect it, we would have you try them yourselves." 1 The Iroquois

were in no humor to attack so formidable a foe as the Abenaquis. Their last conflict had been at. least a drawn battle, and having formed a peace with them as well as with the governor of Canada,

whose allies they were, they declined, as they did in 1704, to reopen a conflict which might involve their own existence.

The name of Mohawk ! if it once had terror 2 for the fugitive Pequot,

upon whose head a price was set, had none

for those

who boasted that they received the first kiss of the morning sun the tribute which they paid was not to the Iroquois.