[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2d. The Qneldfls, etc. The Oneidas had, in 1677, one town, " the old Oneida castle," as it was called, containing one 1 Colonial History, in, 250; Brodhead's seven Mohawk villages, but they New York, 11, 129. Pierron, the Jesuit located, missionary, it is said, visited every week 2 Colonial History, vi, 850. are not 98 THE INDIAN TRIBES hundred houses; the Onondagas, a palisaded town of one hun dred and forty houses, and a village of twenty-four houses; x the Cayugas three towns, and the Senecas four.2 The capital of the confederacy was the village of Onondaga, on the lake of that name, the principal settlement of the Onon-dagas. Bishop Cammerhof, who visited it in 1751, says, " Onondaga, the chief town of the six nations, situated in a very pleasant and fruitful country, and consisting of five small towns and villages, through which the river Zinochsaa runs." In the Relations of the Jesuit missionaries it is said :