The Mahicans retired after two hours and the Mohawks, descending the river in canoes, hid fighting; themselves below them in an ambuscade which commanded the road to Schenectady, at a place called Kinaquariones, where a con flict

ensued in which, although at first successful, the Mohawks

were put

to flight. 1

The Mohawks then induced the Oneidas,

Onondagas and Cayugas to make common cause with them ; and four hundred confederate warriors went to surprise a Mahlcan fort

" situated near Manhattan."

Iroquols returned

But this enterprise failed, and the

home with two wounded. 2

In April, 1670,

Governor Lovelace visited Albany, charged, among other things, with the duty of making peace between the Mohawks and

Ma

hicans j but it was not until August of the succeeding year that

the negotiations were consummated. 3

What the terms of peace

were is not stated, and can only be inferred from the subsequent treatment of the tribes who were parties to it, who are described as being " linked together in interest," and who were uniformly

treated as equals even in the selection of representative chiefs to visit England. At no stage of their history are they repre

sented as the dependents of the Five Nations.

This will more

the wars with the Dutch, fully appear from their connection with

Drake

that the Mahicans and marched into the Mohawk country, led by the principal sachem of

chosen leader. This was a severe stroke, and although the war continued, it was not with that spirit in which it had been