_Rhiierrhonons_ (Riguehronons, Eriechronons, Errieronons, or Erigas): called by the French "Nation du Chat" ("Cat Nation"). This appellation was given, according to the _Relation_ for 1654, "because in their country are a prodigious number of wild cats." But on this point Beauchamp writes thus: "Albert Cusick, my Onondaga interpreter, tells me that _Kah-kwah_ [another name applied to this tribe] means 'an eye swelled like a cat's,'--that is, prominent rather than deep-set; this would indicate that the name refers to a physical characteristic, rather than to the wild cats mentioned by the missionaries." This tribe inhabited the south shore of Lake Erie; they were fierce and warlike, and used poisoned arrows; they had frequent wars with the Iroquois, and were vanquished and utterly destroyed by the latter in 1655-56. _Ahouenrochrhonons_ (Awenrherhonons, or Wenrôhronons): a small tribe at the eastern end of Lake Erie, lying between the Eries and the Neutrals. According to the _Relation_ for 1639, this tribe was for some time allied to the Neutrals; but, some dispute arising between them, the Awenrherhonons left their own country in that year, and took refuge with the Hurons. The _Relation_ for 1641 (chap. vi.) mentions them as living at the town of Khioetoa (St. Michel), and as well disposed towards the missionaries. The two remaining tribes in Brébeuf's list have not yet been identified. Beauchamp thinks the _Scahentoarrhonons_ may have been the Skenchiohronons, mentioned as a sedentary tribe in the _Relation_ for 1640 (indicated on Sanson's map as Squenguioron, at the west end of Lake Erie); the _Conkhandeenrhonons_ he conjectures to have been the Carantouans, or possibly one of the divisions of the Senecas (q.v., _ante_). 35 (p. 117).--_Sonontoen_ (Sonnontouan, Tsonnontouan, or Tegarnhies): see _note 21, ante_: the chief town of the Senecas. It was also known by the names of Totiakton, Theodehacto and Dá-u-de-hok-to (Morgan), meaning "at the bend," or "bended stream." It is in the town of Mendon, on the N.E. bend of Honeoye Creek, two miles N. of Honeoye Falls, and 12½ miles due S. from the centre of Rochester; see Clark's map, cited in _note 21, ante_. Franquelin's _Carte de la Louisiane_ (1684) shows Sonontouan east of the present Genesee River; south of it a point is thus designated, _fontaine d'eau qui brule_, "spring of water which burns." Cf. the _fontaine brulante_ on Bellin's map in Charlevoix's _Nouv. France_, tome i., p. 440. René de Galinée, in his journal of La Salle's voyage (1669-70), also mentions this spring, as situated four leagues south of Sonnontouan. Marshall, commenting on this in his pamphlet, _De la Salle among the Senecas_, p. 23, _note_, describes the spring (one of many in Western New York), in which an inflammable gas rises from the water, and is readily lighted with a match. At Sonnontouan was located the Jesuit mission of La Conception.