[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and English writers, that, subsequently to the peace of 1673, they were repeatedly, indeed uniformly, employed as auxiliaries in the wars of the Five Nations and the British against the French."2 This conclusion is not only abundantly sustained by the records referred to, but by an analysis of the testimony which has been relied upon as indicating an opposite result. The latter is confined, first, to traditionary reverses sustained by the Mahicans on Wanton island, near Katskill, and at Red Hook, in Dutchess county, the bones of the slain at the latter place 1 Golden' 's Six Nations, chap, ii, 35? * Gallatin*s Indian Tribes, u, 43, 44. 58 THE INDIAN TRIBES being, it is said, in monumental record when the Dutch first set tled there; and second, to the statements by Mfcchaelius and Wassenaar. The traditionary evidence is entirely worthless as to the results involved, and at best can only be accepted as proof of sanguinary conflicts; while the statements by Michael-ius and Wassenaar, based as they were on information received from others, are almost wholly at variance with positive records.