On the whole, not to enlarge on the minutiae of a case, which at best can afford no pleasure to those who feel their own honor involved in the memory of Standish and his Plymouth brethren, we can hardly record the fate of the kind and gentle Iyanough, the Courteous Sachem, on his own soil, in the prime of his days, without a blush and a sigh together for the _mistake_ and the _misfortune._ Insulted, threatened, pursued, by an enemy whom no restitution could satisfy, and who suspected equally his caresses and fears, he fled in consternation and died in despair. CHAPTER III. Summary account of the Five Nations--Their early history--Government--Conquests--Population--Territory--Intercourse with European Colonies--Their war with the Adirondacks--Adventures of Piskaret--Their negotiations with the French, in 1684--Anecdotes of the Onondaga Chief, Garangula--His speech at the Council, and effects of it--Remarks on his character--History of the Five Nations continued to the time of Adario--His exploits--Their object and results--War between the confederates and the French--Adventures of Black-Kettle. Having concluded our notices of the most eminent Indians of New-England, it now becomes proper, following merely the progress of history, to turn our attention to another section of country, and to a period of time which has not yet furnished us any considerable share of its abundant material. We refer to the Middle States, and particularly to a large portion of the State of New-York, which, with other neighboring territory, was formerly occupied by that famous confederacy commonly called, by the English, the Five Nations. Owing to circumstances not necessary here to be detailed, these tribes--and, as an almost necessary consequence, all the distinguished individuals they produced--came forward in their intercourse with the foreign colonies around them, to fill the prominent station before filled by the Indians of New-England, much as the latter had, in their turn, succeeded the red men of the South. The Five Nations were the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Cayugas, the Onondagas and the Senecas. The Virginian Indians gave them the name of Massawomekes; the Dutch called them Maquas, or Makakuase; and the French, Iroquois. Their appellation at home was the Mingoes, and sometimes the Aganuschion, or United People. [FN] * * * * * [FN] Governor Clinton's Discourse before N. Y. H. Society: 1811.