gave and Shawanoes, nine hundred ;

two hundred

;

warriors ;

the Mahicans and

Wyandots,

the Ottawa confederacy under Pontiac a num

ber equal to their

allies.

Moving

quickly to their work, one

after another, LeBoeuf,

Verrango, Presque Isle, Sandusky, St. and Michillimackinac fell into the hands of Joseph, Miami, the conspirators. save a country ; prevent the downof the British government upon this continent." Bancroft.

fall ; fall

IU I understood and was told

by them

(the Delawares) that the breaking out of this war was occasioned by the Seneca

Indians who went about with a bloody belt and tomahawk to all the nations en" this trouble gaged Manuscripts of Sir Wm. Johnson, vm, 14. The following is Johnson's estimate:

m

MoAa-wks, two vilFriendly Indians. 1 60 warriors two villages, j Oneidas,

lages,

250;

Tuscaroras, one village,

dagas, one large

one large

140; Qnonvillage,

1.50;

Cayugas,

total,

900 wartw

villages,

village,

riors.

Hostile Indians

1050;

Delawares,

Scnecas,

of the

Ohio, 600; Shaiuanoes, 300 ; Wyandots and Mohicans, near Fort Sandusky, 200 total warriors. Manuscripts, xxiv, 186.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

The Mohawks^ Oneidas, Tuscaroras^ Onondagas and Cayugas held to their covenant with the English, but only as neutrals. Teedyuscung followed

their

Easton, in

May, 1762,

fully adjusted his

prietaries.

It

example, having,

in

a treaty

at

dispute with the pro The Senecas and the western

was his last treaty.

Lenapes were alike offended by his course, and determined to advance their ends by his destruction. Resorting to a mode of