Immediately opposite stands the scarcely less elevated, and not less celebrated promontory of Point Iroquois, the Na-do-wa-we-gon-ing, or Place of Iroquois Bones, of the Chippewas.

Immediately opposite stands the scarcely less elevated, and not less celebrated promontory of Point Iroquois, the Na-do-wa-we-gon-ing, or Place of Iroquois Bones, of the Chippewas.

The two prominences of Point Iroquois and Gross Cape are very different in character.

We must look to the Iroquois for the origin of this word.

On the third of April, 1764, Sir William Johnson concluded preliminary articles of peace and friendship with eight deputies of the Seneca nation, which was the only one of the Iroquois who joined Pontiac.

I do not believe we have more than three mother stocks of languages in all the United States east of the Mississippi, embracing also large portions of territory west of it, namely, the Algonquin, Iroquois, and what may be called Apallachian.

This' stream in fact, geologically considered, crosses through, and falls over, the high ridge of sandstone rock which stretches from Point Iroquois to the Pictured Rocks.

For instance, I strongly suspect that the Eries, who are said to have been destroyed by the Iroquois, were the Shawnese, who were driven from their ancient seat upon Lake Erie to the south-west."

Some of the Iroquois of Green Bay were present.

But these tribes were the bitter enemies of the Iroquois, who dwelt in what is now central New York, and when, in consequence of this alliance, the French were summoned to take the warpath, Champlain, with a few followers, went, and on the shore of the lake which now bears his name, not far from the site of Ticonderoga, he met and defeated the Iroquois tribe of Mohawks in July, 1609.

But these tribes were the bitter enemies of the Iroquois, who dwelt in what is now central New York, and when, in consequence of this alliance, the French were summoned to take the warpath, Champlain, with a few followers, went, and on the shore of the lake which now bears his name, not far from the site of Ticonderoga, he met and defeated the Iroquois tribe of Mohawks in July, 1609.

The battle was a small affair; but its consequences were serious and lasting, for the Iroquois were thenceforth the enemies of the French, and prevented them from ever coming southward and taking possession of the Hudson and the Mohawk valleys.

The chief tribes were the Iroquois proper,forming a confederacy in central New York known as the Five Nations (Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks),the Hurons, the Eries, the Cherokees, and the Tuscaroras.

From the day when Champlain, in 1609, joined his Huron-Algonquin neighbors and went with them on the warpath against the Iroquois, the French held to the policy of making friends with the Indians.

The Iroquois of central New York were the fiercest and most warlike Indians of the Atlantic coast.

On the other hand, the destruction of the tribes in New England and the feud between the French and the Iroquois saved New England.

The French recognized this at once, and sent over a very able soldierCount Frontenacwith orders to conquer New York; but the colony was saved by the Iroquois, who in the summer of 1689 began a war of their own against the French, laid siege to Montreal, and roasted French captives under its walls.

The Lords of Trade in London had ordered the colonies to send delegates to Albany to make a treaty with the Iroquois Indians, and to this congress Franklin purposed to submit a plan for union against the French.

"A secret clan, common to all Northern and Western Indians, celebrating secret rites among the six nations of the Iroquois.

"I have always played with Iroquois children; I went to school with Magdalen Brant.

"Stoner reports that all the Iroquois are making ready for some unknown rite, sir.

"Do you speak the Iroquois tongues, or any of them?"

We swing by the bush and pick up the Iroquois trail 'twixt the Hollow and Mayfield.

We must strive to catch him there; and, failing that, we must watch Magdalen Brant, that she has no communication with the Iroquois."

And while I'm watching her, Jack Mount is to range, and track any savage who passes the Iroquois trail....