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The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 18

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] of division; I prayed the tutelar angels of the whole country to touch the hearts of those who heard me, when my words should strike their ear. 32 I greatly astonished them when they heard me naming all by nations, by tribes, by families and each particular individual of any note, and all by aid of my manuscript, which was a matter as wonderful as it was new. I told them I was the bearer of nineteen words to them. The first : That it was Onnonthio, M. de Lauzon, Governor of New France, who spoke by my mouth, and then the Hurons and the Algonquins as well as the French, for all these three nations had Onnonthio for their-Great Chief. A large belt of wampum, one hundred little tubes or pipes of red glass, the diamonds of the country, and a caribou's hide being passed : these three presents made but one word. My second word was, to cut the bonds of the eight Seneca prisoners, taken by our allies and brought to Montreal, as already stated. The third was, to break the bonds of the Mohegans also, captured about the same time. The fourth; to thank those of Onontago for having brought our prisoner back. The fifth present was, to thank the Senecas for having saved him from the scaffold.