"_Yonnondio_, you must have believed, when you left _Quebeck_, that the Sun had burnt up all the Forests which render our Country inaccessible to the _French_, or that the Lakes had so far overflown their Banks, that they had surrounded our Castles, and that it was impossible for us to get out of them. Yes, _Yonnondio_, surely you must have dreamt so, and the Curiosity of seeing so great a Wonder has brought you so far. Now you are undeceived, since that I and the Warriors here present are come to assure you, that the _Senekas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneydoes_, and _Mohawks_ are yet alive. I thank you, in their Name, for bringing back into their Country the _Calumet_, which your Predecessor received from their Hands. It was happy for you, that you left Underground that murdering Hatchet, that has been so often dyed in the Blood of the _French_. Hear, _Yonnondio_, I do not sleep, I have my Eyes open, and the Sun, which enlightens me, discovers to me a great Captain at the Head of a Company of Soldiers, who speaks as if he were dreaming. He says, that he only came to the Lake to smoke on the great _Calumet_ with the _Onondagas_. But _Garangula_ says, that he sees the contrary, that it was to knock them on the Head, if Sickness had not weakened the Arms of the _French_. "I see _Yonnondio_ raving in a Camp of sick Men, whose Lives the great Spirit has saved, by inflicting this Sickness on them. Hear, _Yonnondio_, our Women had taken their Clubs, our Children and old Men had carried their Bows and Arrows into the Heart of your Camp, if our Warriors had not disarmed them, and kept them back, when your Messenger, _Ohguesse_, came to our Castles. It is done, and I have said it. Hear, _Yonnondio_, we plundered none of the _French_, but those that carried Guns, Powder, and Ball to the _Iwikties_ and _Chictaghicks_, because those Arms might have cost us our Lives. Herein we follow the Example of the Jesuits, who stave all the Caggs of Rum brought to our Castles, lest the drunken _Indians_ should knock them on the Head. Our Warriors have not Bevers enough to pay for all these Arms, that they have taken, and our old Men are not afraid of the War. This Belt preserves my Words. "We carried the _English_ into our Lakes, to trade there with the _Utawawas_ and _Quatoghies_, as the _Adirondacks_ brought the _French_ to our Castles, to carry on a Trade which the _English_ say is theirs. We are born free, we neither depend on _Yonnondio_ nor _Corlear_. "We may go where we please, and carry with us whom we please, and buy and sell what we please: If your Allies be your Slaves, use them as such, command them to receive no other but your People. This Belt preserves my Words.