" Indians shall see," said Sullivan, that we have malice enough in our hearts to

destroy everything that contributes to their sup Cathaport," and faithfully was that determination executed.

THE INDUN TRIBES

rine Montour received in part the

the destruction of her residence

at

punishment she merited in Catharinestown ; Kendaia

was swept from existence ; Kanadaseagea, the capital of the 'Senecas^ near the. head of the lake which bears their name, with sixty well

its

built houses and fine orchards ;

" its

Kanandaigua, with

twenty-three very elegant houses, mostly framed, and, in and general, large," and its fields of corn and orchards of fruit,

" one Genesee castle, the capital of the Onondagas, with its hundred and twenty-eight houses, mostly large and very elegant," were alike destroyed. Forty Indian towns were burned one hundred and sixty thousand bushels of corn in the fields and in granaries, were destroyed ; a vast number of the finest fruit ^rees were cut down ; gardens covered with vegetables were ;

desolated ; the proud Indians, who had scarce felt the touch of the colonists except in kindness, were driven into the forests to starve and be hunted like wild beasts ; their altars were overturned, their graves trampled

country

laid

upon by

strangers,

and

their beautiful

waste.

The punishment administered by Sullivan was indeed terrible, That the projectors of the expedition, includ so regarded it, is well known ; that four of ing Washington, had broken their pledge of neutrality and carried for tribes the but was it just?