The most to be feared is the Iroquois who are the most powerful in consequence of the facility with which they obtain arms from the English and the number of slaves they make daily among this is the only their neighbours by carrying away at an early age their children, whom they adopt means of their increase, for thro' their debaucheries of Brandy wliich lead them into frightful dis;

orders, the few children their women raise could not of themselves assuredly sustain them, if they

did not make prisoners.

The great trade in arms and ammunition at a low rate, among the English has given them hitherto that advantage which they have over other nations who in order to be disarmed have been destroyed

by the former who are all of them insolent. Even the English in Virginia have suffered and still from them every day ; but the interest of the trader at Orange and Manatte supersedes the public interest, for if they would not sell them powder, that nation could be more easily conquered suffer

than any other.

dant on them

;

of which have other smaller ones depen-

It consists of five principal villages, each

the first is called Annie (Mohawk) which can furnish two hundred men fit for service

and are ten leagues from Orange (Albany) the second is Oneyoust (Oneida) which can furnish one hundred and fifty men at from 15 to 20 leagues from Annie the third is Onnontague which could bring out three hundred men, ('tis one hundred leagues from Montreal) the fourth is Goyoguoain (Cayuga) which could put two hundred men a-foot, at twelve leagues from Lake Ontario, and the Sonoutouans (Senecas) the fifth, who comprize, as it is reported, twelve hundred men bearing arms, ;