the confederated tribes still had a name, but in almost all other respects their dominion and authority had the touch of the contending civilizations as

shriveled up under certainly as had that

of the nations which ha<l earlier fallen under its malign influence.

Nominally united when the war closed, and maintaining a recognized deference to the action and wishes of each other, as they had during its continuance, they were nevertheless prac tically divided.

Johnson

The Mohawks, dwelling in

the presence of

his own children swelling their ranks

reflected in

wishes of the English government, or stirred the to tribes mischief with the expectation of rewards as up mediators ; petted, and perhaps deservedly so, for services which

their action the

had cost them the loss of their ablest chief and a large number of their best warriors, they were not the less debauched by liquor, enfeebled by disease, and shorn of their prestige ; while the Senecas, more manly and generous, less contaminated by civilization by their separation

from

its

more immediate influ

ence, dictated the policy and controlled all of active force that As a nation they never remained among their ancient brethren.

Power and territory

again appeared in the field as contestants. alike fell from their grasp at Fort Stanwix.

Brighter was the record of the Lenapes, and their grand-child ren, the Shawanoes and Mahicans of the west, judged from the

En standpoint of the success which had crowned their efforts. " poor women" striking their op tering upon the struggle as