So successful were they that many of the nation were drawn off to Canada and became zealous partizans of the French and a scourge to English settlements, especially emphasized in the massacre at Schenectady in February, 1689-90. Those who remained true to the English became no longer "barbarians" inthe full sense of that word, but "Praying Maquas." The subsequent story of the nation may be gleaned from the pages of history. At the close of t'he Revolution the integrity of the Six Nations had been effectually broken, and the castles of the Mohawks swept from fhe valley proper. The history, of the latter nation especially, needs to be studied, not in the wild glamour of fiction, but in the realm of fact, as that of an original people, native to the soil of the New World, clasping 'hands with the era of t!he origin of man ; a people w'ho, when they were first met, had borrowed nothing, absolutely nothing, from the civilizations or the languages of the Old World -- tlie Ongzve-howe, the "real men"' of the Mohawk Valley. The locations of the castles or principal towns of the nation, as noted in Van Curler's Journal, has given rise to considerable discussion, particularly in regard to the location of the first of the series and its identity under the different names by wbidi it was called. Van Curler was not an "ignorant Hollander wandering around in the woods," as one writer states ; on the contrary, he was an educated man and one of the best equipped men then in the country for the trip he had undertaken, and instead of "wandering around in the woods," he was conducted by Mdliawk guides. He wrote that he left Fort Orange in company with Jeronimus la Crock, William Thomasson, and five Mohawks as guides and bearers, "between nine and ten o'clock in the morning," December 12, 1634, and after walking "mostly northwest about eight miles" (Dutch), stopped "at half-past twelve in the evening" (p. m.) "at a little 'hunters' cabin near the stream that runs into their land, of the name of Vyoge." His hours' travel and his miles' travel to this poii)t were either loosely stated in his manuscript or were mis-