[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that the Sinneques have killed them for the lucar of the beavor, or because the Mennissincks have not been with the Sinneques as usual to pay their duty; and therefore desire that your excellency will be pleased to order that the Sinneques may be told not to molest or hurt the Mennissincks, they being willing to con tinue in amity with them — Schuyler, Feb. 1693, Colonial History, iv, 98. 182 THE INDIAN TRIBES from their enemies the name of Satans. On terms of peace with, but unsubdued by the Iroquois, their presence inspired the Minsis, and opened up to them a future in which their united war cry challenged the best efforts of their English and Indian foes. Half a century later they could say to their former rulers, the Senecas : " We have once been women and ashamed to look down at our petticoats, but as you have taken them off and encouraged us to begin a quarrel with the English, we are determined never to submit again to that ignominious state while there is one of us alive," J while a thousand warriors,