[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Note 3, ante p. 35. Raffeix, the Brodhcad, n, 193. The wars of the five French missionary, writes, in 1672: nations against their own kindred, as in " God preserve the Andastcs, who have the case of the Andastes, Eriesy etc., are only three hundred warriors, and bless one of the unexplained passages in their their arms to humiliate the Iroquois and history, preserve to us peace and our missions." — 56 THE INDIAN TRIBES thither of tribes retreating before the civilization which was rolling upon them, the condition of even the subjugated tribes improved, while the integrity of the Iroquois was compromised. What the French lacked in position they made up in zeal, and pushed their priests and their fire-arms together. Their success was far greater than the English could wish. The Mohawks were shorn of an entire canton of converts; the flower of the Mohicans became the trophies of the priests; the Senecas, who could call out more warriors than their four associate tribes combined, were detached almost entirely, two small villages only retaining their allegiance to the English. A hundred years of