"the pride of tribe," and whose speech in reply to M. de la Barre, the governor of Canada, in 1684, is quoted by Thatcher At the time of its delivery he was an old man, and Drake. A man of more activity and disappears from history soon after. earlier period

the

Onondaga

was the warrior called by the English, BLACK KETTLE. Golden " famous hero " but few of his exploits speaks of him as a " It is have come down to the present time. only known," " that he commanded of his ;

says Thatcher,

large parties

men, who were exceedingly troublesome

to the

country In French.

1691, he made an irruption into the country around Montreal, " He overran Canada head of several hundred men. (say

at the

the French annalists), as a torrent does the low lands, when it The troops overflows its banks, and there is no withstanding it.

of the stations received orders to stand upon the defensive ; and

was not until the enemy were returning home victorious, after having desolated the French possessions, that a force of four

it

hundred soldiers was mustered to pursue them. BLACK KET TLE is said to have had but half that number with him at this After losing juncture, but he gave battle and fought desperately. broke men with some he slain, prisoners, through the twenty

French ranks and escaped, leaving a considerable number of his

!

APPENDIX.

The story is no doubt exagge

enemies wounded and killed."