[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Champlain pearance of the Frenchmen, and the with four of his men, and accompanied peculiarity of their arms, produced extreme by some aoo Hurons, were engaged in astonishment in the Mohawk ranks; but exploring Lake Champlain, when a party what was their dismay when the first of hostile Mohawks appeared. As the In-. report of the arquebuses fell upon their dian practice was against fighting on the ears, and they beheld two of their chiefs water, both parties hurried to the shore, fall dead and a third dangerously wounded, where they pitched for battle. The Mo-The contest was of short duration. The hawks hastily entrenched themselves with Mohaiuks broke and fled. Many were trees " at the point of a cape which runs killed, and some taken prisoners. Not 54 THE INDIAN TRIBES along the northern frontiers of the Iroquots, and carried terror into the ranks of the Onondagas* Obtaining arms and powder from the Dutch, the confederacy recovered its position, and in turn harassed the French and their Indians in wars which were yet open when the jurisdiction of the Dutch was exchanged for that 6f the English. That the Dutch were neutrals is evident from their treaties with the Indians. Their first settlement was among the Mahi-cans at what is now Albany, and their intercourse was mainly, if not entirely, with that nation until 1623, when it is stated, the