NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.



281



tacked by the Indians, were forced to take refuge near
the sources of the Missouri.
  "Another suaaestion has been made, that the French
in their expeditions from Canada to the Mississippi, were
the anthors of these works; but the most numerous are
to be found in the territory of the Senecais, whose hos-
tility to the French. was such, that they were not allow-
ed for a long time to have any footing awonr thern.r
The fort at Niagara was obtained from them by the in-
trigues and eloquence of Joncaire, an. adopted child of
the natioii.t
  " Louis Denmie. a Frenchman, aged upwards of seven-
ty, and who has been settled and married famong the
confederates for more than half a century, told me that



accordin g to the trad



thion



s were erected by anl
first Europearns ever s
it ; then the Duitch ; i
artmy first appeared |
etrated thronoth the in



precious



s of the a
army ofE
,eeln bv th



arid
at ()
teric



finwal 1'
swegc
)r of tJ



I mietals,; that they
        - 2~ ~ ~I  a



years, and went clown the (II
  " Some of the Senecas told
ary, that those in. their territo
cestors in their wars with tL
four, or five hundred. years a
traditions, that their ancestors
west; and the Senecas say t
country of the Creeks. The
the Iroquois first inhabited on
that the3r were driven to theii



110.
Mr. 1



noeent Indians, t
;paniards, who l
em ; the French
sr the Enalish;
i ill great force,
ie country, searc
continued there



hese
wvere
k the
that
and
hing
two



iirkland, the Mission-



rvr were raised by their an-



te Western Indicans, three,
go. All the cantons have
- came orivillally from the
hat theirs first settled in the
early histories mention that
the north side of the lakes;
r present territory in a war



with the Algonquins or Adirondacks, from whence they
expelled the Satanas. If these accounts are correct, the
ancestors of the Senecas did not, in all probability, OCCuw
py their great territory, at the time they allege.



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* Colden, vol. 1. p. 61.



t Charlevoix, vol. 3. letter 15. p. 2. 27.



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