many, and they grow

fast in

:

" The

number.

They were formerly like young panthers they could neither bite nor scratch we could play with them safely we feared But now their bodies are become nothing they could do to us. ;

;

;

big as the

elk,

and strong as the buffalo ; they have also got They have driven us out of our country

great and sharp claws.

for taking part in your quarrel.

We expect the great king will

us another country, that our children and be his friends and children as we are." 2

give

may live after us,

At Fort Niagara they perished in large numbers from diseases caused by the absence of accustomed food, and the exposures to

which they were necessarily subjected.

But

their

hatreds

grew with their misfortunes. Red Jacket plead with them to make peace, without avail ; against the name of Washington they Still

wrote that

of Annatakaules,

the

destroyer

of

towns.

powerful for predatory warfare, they organized anew during

the winter, and, with Corn-Planter in command of the Senecas,

upon the Oneidas and Tuscaroras ; burned their castle, church, and village, and drove the offenders down upon the fell

Fort Niagara was erected by the French in 1725, and was for many years The the seat of the French missionaries. English captured it in 1759, when it was rebuilt and During the regarrisoned. revolution, it was held by the British, and became the head-quarters of the Indians

and tories. It was surrendered to the United States in 1794. a The authenticity of this document