They would listen to no explanations and Canasaexplaining

;

;

had abused them, and called them women. The Six Nations had, however, given to them and the Shawanoes the x

teego

lands upon the Susquehanna and Juniatta for hunting grounds, and had so informed the governor ; but notwithstanding this the

white

men were allowed

to

go and

settle

upon those lands.

A viceroy chieftain jwho had been set over them by the Six Nations.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

Two years ago, moreover, the governor had been to Albany to buy some land of the Six Nations, and had described the of boundaries by points compass, which the Indians did not understand, by which the deeds were made to include lands both upon the Susquehanna and the Juniata which they did not intend When all these things were known to the Indians, to sell. they had declared that they would no longer be friends to the English, who were trying to get all their country away from

He had come now to smoke the pipe of peace with

them.

them, and hoped that justice might be done to his people. The conference continued nine days, and was the occasion for the display of

no little tact and good judgment on the part

of Governor Denny, as well as on that of Teedyuscung. former, as some of the Iroquois chiefs expressed

The

"

put his hand into Teedyuscung's bosom, and was so successful as to draw out the secret, which neither Johnson nor the Six Nations it,