Apéndice

them; and two who are called the younger tribes, namely, the Cayugas and Oneidas. All thefe tribes fpeak one Ian- guage, and were then united in a clofe con- federacy, and occupied the tracS of coun- try from the eaft end of lake Erie to lake Champlain, and from the Kittatinney and Highlands to the lake Ontario and the river Cadaraqui, or St. Laurence. They had fometime before that, carried on a war with a nation, who lived beyond the lakes and were called Adirondacs. In this war they were worfled: but having made a peace with them, through the interceffion of the Frepich who were then fettling Canada, they turned their arms againft the Lenopi; and as this war was long and doubtful, they, in the courfe of it, not only exerted their w^iole force, but put in practice every meafure which prudence or policy could devife to bring it to a fuc- cefsful ifllie. For this purpose they bent their courfe down the Sufquehannah, and warring with the Indians in their way, and having penetrated as far as the mouth of it, they, by the terror of their arms, engaged a nation, now known by the name of Nanticocks, Conoys, and Tuteloes, and who lived between Chefapeak and Dela- [ 398 1 ware bays, and bordering on the tribe of Chiohocki, to enter into an alliance with them. They also formed an alliance with the Monakans, and ftimulated them to a war with the Lenopi and their confede- rates. At the same time the Mohawks car- ried on a furious war down the Hudfon against the Mohiccons and River Indians, and compelled them to purchafe a tempo- rary and precarious peace, by acknowledging them to be their fuperiors, and paying an annual tribute. The Lenopi being furrounded with enemies, and hard prefTed, and having loft many of their warriors, were at laft compelled to fue for peace, which was granted to them on the condition that they fhould put themfelves under the proteftion of the Mingoes, confine themfelves to raifmg corn, hunting for the fubfiftance of their famiUes, and no longer have the power of making war. This is what the Indians call making them women. And in this condition the Lenopis where when William Penn firft arrived and began the fettlement of Pennfylvania in 1682.