Thus, when they make peace with any nation with whom they have been at war, after burying the hatchet, they take up the belt of wampum, and fay, *^ We now ^^ gather up all the bones of thofe who have " been flain, and bury them, &c." See all the treaties of peace. Befides, it is cuf- tomary when any of them die at a diftance from home, to bury them, and afterwards to come and take up the bones and carry them home. At a treaty which was held at Lancafter with the Six Nations, one of them died, and was buried in the woods a little diftance from the town. Some time after a party came and took up the body, feparated the flefli from the bones by boiling and fcraping them clean, and carried them to be depofited in the fepulchres of 3G L 400 ] their anceftors. The operation was fo ofFenfive and difagreeable, that no body could come near them while they were performing it.
(7.) p. 201. The Ofweatchies, Connofe- dagoes and Cohunnegagoes, or as they are commonly called, Caghnewagos, are of the Mingo or Six Nation Indians, who by the influence of the French miffionaries, have been feparated from their nation, and in- duced to fettle there.
I do not know of what nation the Aug- quagahs are, but fufped they are a family of the Senecas.
The Nanticocks and Conoies were for- merly of a nation that lived at the head of Chefapeak bay, and who, of late years, have been adopted into the Mingo or Iro- quois confederacy, and make a feventh nation. The Monacans or Tufcaroras, who were taken into the confederacy in 171 2, making the fixth.
r 40X ] The Saponies are families of the Wana- mies, who removed from New-Jerfey, and, with the Mohiccons, Munfies, and Dela- wares, belonging to the Leonopi nation. The Mingos are a war colony from the Six Nations; fo are the Cohunnewagos.