thousand acres, this company sent out, in Oc

tober, 1750, Christopher Gist to make treaties with the Indians and select locations for colonies, while Pennsylvania, for a similar purpose, dispatched George Croghan. At Logstown, these agents met and together prosecuted surveys, and consum mated treaties, covering a broad expanse of territory, resting

from

their labors in the heart of finally

the territory of the

Miamis.

The Senecas, the Lenapes, and the Shawanoes, whose territory was thus invaded by the rival

civilizations of Europe, at first

received their visitors approvingly ; but at length comprehending

they

were

Where,"

said

that

"

to

be

the

ultimate

sufferers,

remonstrated.

Half-King, as the ruling " where lie the lands of the Indians ?

Tanadiarisson, the

Seneca chief was called ;

The French claim -all on one side of the river, and the English "

and, repairing to the French commandant Erie, he declared that it was the wish of his people that both

all

on the other j

parties should

Bancroft, iv, 43

at

withdraw. etc. ;

Met with open refusal, he returned

Life and Times of Sir Wm, Johnson, i, 386, etc.

1HE INDIAN TRIBES

to his council, and added to the pending conflict a third party in

the aboriginal proprietors who were resolved to defeat

interest

the purposes of their European neighbors in such manner as opportunity should develop.

Strong in all the resources of civil and military centralization, the government of Canada moved with a resolution and celerity that for a time set at defiance the efforts of their slow-footed