The result of these and other changes was, that at the close of the half century the Lenapes had an active, vigorous organ ization of five tribes j the Iroquois^ one of seven tribes, and the

i,

Memorials of the Moravian Church,

sions with the addition of the Shawanoes

58. Colonial History, vn, 869.

and Mafricans. There were also several detached clans of minor importance assoelated with them.

Including the- original Lenape divi-

O.F HUDSON'S

RIPER.

Mohicans, although divided by provincial lines, one that could followers from Quebec to Manhattan. Although

still call its

had produced these new combinations were

the changes which

great degree the result alike of the selfish efforts of the European nations who were contesting the supremacy of the continent, and of the pressure of an incoming civilization, they in a

were not less the work of aboriginal diplomats who had pur The lessons which Philip had poses of their own to serve. and his allies were his people taught deeply impressed. Fugi tives from the fields on which he had met disaster, bore them to congenial soil among the Lenapes and Skawanoes ; to the north,

among the Abenaquis, sharpening their desire for revenges which were unatoned

;

on the prairies of the west and amid the wilder

nesses of Canada, they were the theme of thought and prepara

The English saw the gathering storm and sought shelter behind their allies, the Iroquois ; the French welded its gathering tion.

folds, and

bade the avengers -onward.