[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] might come and have constant free trade with them, which was concluded upon." 2 It is not to be presumed that the nations named were present at one time, for they were not at peace with each other; there is no mention made by the Dutch histo rians of any acknowledgment of subjugation by any of the tribes, so minutely described in one of the early histories of New York,3 and accepted apparently without examination by subsequent writers. The deducible fact is that none of the tribes were granted special privileges, and that there was not the slightest distinction made between them in the terms of the compact. During the difficulties with the Indians in the vicinity of Fort Amsterdam in 1645, it is said that Director Kieft visited Fort Orange and made a treaty with the Mohawks and Mahi-cans by which their friendship was secured. Although O'Cal-laghan 4 magnifies J:he consequence of the Mohawks in this trans action, and assumes that their "name alone, inspired terror among all the tribes west of the Connecticut; over whom they claimed to be sovereign, and from whom they exacted tribute," one of the Hurons was killed; and they so graphically described in the story of celebrated their victory on the field of Hiawatha. battle in dancing and singing. — Yates and. 2 Ifassenaar, vn, 1 1 } Doc. Hist., in,