to any more bloodshed."

The loyal Seneca villages 2 exercised

in the same direction. Visited by a party of to persuade them on their to tried Lenapes Niagara, they way to stop, and called to their aid their most venerable chief; but neither belts nor personal appeals had any effect upon the fol

their influence

lowers of Shingas. Replying to the loyal Senecas they ex claimed " have once been women and ashamed to look :

We

down at our petticoats, but as you have taken off our petticoats, and encouraged us to begin a quarrel with the English, we are determined never to submit agaiA to that ignominious state while there is one of us alive.

It

seems to us that you now want to

the blame on us, and make peace, which we will not throw hearken to, but will go to our father the French, who will assist all

and protect us." 3 Niagara declared

at

English.

Thither they went, and to the commandant :

" Father

We are now at war with the

When we first began, being very poor, we struck

them with billets of wood." In reply, the commandant gave them a hatchet, and arms and ammunition, and lighted afresh the torch of war which they had waved along the borders. Not more successful were the direct appeals of Johnson's " Get embassadors to Shingas. sober," said they to him, in the metaphorical language of Indian speech u Get sober your But the days of yore actions are those of a drunken man." were gone, when the trembling Lenape stood cowering in the ;