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• The Iroquois were on their track. (19)
• Only twenty were captured alive by the Iroquois. (19)
• He knew nothing about Iroquois history or character. (19)
• What wonder the revenge of the Iroquois was terrible! (19)
• Months passed while the Iroquois brooded on vengeance. (19)
• At this critical moment panic seized the Iroquois camp. (19)
• About the whole country the Iroquois prowled like wild beasts. (19)
• The Iroquois chief, summoning all his forces, prepared a plan. (19)
• The Iroquois looked to the English for help against the French. (19)
• Nor did they offer their lives to the Iroquois hatchets in vain. (19)
• At last a reinforcement arrived, and the Iroquois beat a retreat. (19)
• But the Iroquois hate against the Hurons was fast fanning into flame. (19)
• The Iroquois wanted to torture him to death, but Johnson sternly refused. (19)
• They resolved, therefore, to brave the Iroquois and make the long journey. (19)
• When the colony was two years old, the Iroquois summoned all their braves. (19)
• Such was the awful massacre of Lachine; such the vengeance of the Iroquois. (19)
• A great advantage was gained for Canada when the Iroquois at length gave way. (19)
• He told Maisonneuve that he was being pursued by the Iroquois, coveting his scalp. (19)
• The Iroquois turned upon them, burning some on the spot, and making captives of others. (19)
• The Iroquois threw off the mask and determined to deal the French in Canada a deadly blow. (19)
• Now he added, if the Iroquois wished {113} to see him, they would have to come to Montreal. (19)
• The Iroquois, having the English Governor at their back, at first returned a defiant answer. (19)
• For this the angry Iroquois cut away his lower lip and thrust a red-hot iron down his throat. (19)
• While he continued in Canada the doughty Frontenac was more than a match for the Iroquois chiefs. (19)
• While pursuing her purpose in New York, Segwuna lived with a small band of Iroquois on Staten Island. (18)
• A French regular soldier received ten louis for the scalp of an Iroquois; a volunteer received twenty. (19)
• Champlain, then, made three warlike expeditions into the country of the Iroquois during the next six years. (19)
• Spring found Ville Marie quite snug and comfortable, and the inhabitants wondering where the Iroquois were. (19)
• For, while La Salle had been absent, after years of peace, the restless Iroquois had dug up the war-hatchet. (19)
• Then, fully counting the cost of his action, he returned to the {61} Iroquois and to his companion Godefroy. (19)
• To this boasting Denonville replied that Colonel Dongan of New York claimed the Iroquois as English subjects. (19)
• So high by this time was piled the bodies of the Iroquois, that their fellows could now leap over the stockade. (19)
• Larobeyre, wounded and unable to flee, was led captive to the Iroquois wigwams and roasted alive at a slow fire. (19)
• Next day a few mangled corpses here, a heap of smoking ruins there, told the terrible tale of the Iroquois raid. (19)
• Thanks to the incessant raids of the Iroquois into Canada, the farmers dared not till the fields and sow the seed. (19)
• If Frontenac hoped that the Iroquois would cease after this to give him trouble, he was destined to disappointment. (19)
• It threw the Iroquois into friendship with the Dutch and other enemies of the French, who supplied them with firearms. (19)
• The heart of this great man, the founder of the ill-fated Huron mission, was seized by an Iroquois chief and devoured. (19)
• They would push fearlessly past the Iroquois concealed in ambush and carry the gospel amongst the most distant tribes. (19)
• A new English Governor, Andros, was sent out to New York to foment the deadly feud between the Iroquois and the Canadians. (19)
• Here they toiled, together with a number of Huron converts, in building a stronghold which would defy the dreaded Iroquois. (19)
• After this, when they went amongst the Iroquois, cross and breviary in hand, Jesuit missionaries met with no danger or refusal. (19)
• The Iroquois perceived that it would be hopeless now to storm the fort, and wisely decided to accept ransom for their prisoners. (19)
• During the next three years Champlain was kept very busy in explorations, in attacking the Iroquois, and in protecting his colony. (19)
• Much, then, as the Governor, De Lauzon, wanted peace, neither he nor his Indian allies knew how far they could trust the Iroquois. (19)
• After a time Father Jogues was taken by the Iroquois in one of their trading visits to the Dutch of New Netherlands, now called New York. (19)
• But the French Governor made it a condition of the treaty that the New Englanders should help Canada to exterminate the terrible Iroquois. (19)
• Two or three days afterwards, when the fleeing Iroquois were leagues away, the Jesuits at St. Mary came to the smoking ruins of St. Ignace. (19)
• For six weeks they travelled to reach the Iroquois lodges, but they lost their way, and came at last to the Dutch settlement of Schenectady. (19)
• The two brave priests were seized and stripped and beaten with clubs along the road to St. Ignace, which post the Iroquois had also captured. (19)
• By these means was a treaty of peace between the French and all the Iroquois declared, and for twenty years Canada enjoyed the sweets of peace. (19)
• Frontenac, thinking all was secure for the present, had left Quebec to entertain a band of Iroquois at Montreal to a great feast and war-dance. (19)
• To them peace meant utter ruin; their numbers were too few, and they well knew Denonville could not protect them from the fury of the Iroquois. (19)
• Instead of venturing their lives so far inland amongst the treacherous Iroquois, much better was it to choose a spot nearer Quebec for their town. (19)
• The Canadians sallied out upon a number of skirmishes, filling the air with a frightful din, borrowing from the Iroquois their piercing war-cries. (19)
• The Iroquois tribes, especially the Senecas, who had now become the strongest nation, noticed the difference at once when they resumed negotiations. (19)
• Taking advantage of their absence, the Iroquois had attacked the Huron town of Teanaustaye, or St. Joseph, where the Jesuit, Father Daniel, was in charge. (19)
• The few foolish ones who trusted in Iroquois good faith were actually tomahawked by their so-called friends on the way to the Iroquois lodges. (19)
• Governor de Calliéres hesitated to attack Albany until he could feel confident that the long-dreaded Iroquois Indians would not return to the old allies, the English. (19)
• The new Governor very quickly found that the English colonists were intriguing with the Iroquois, upholding and encouraging them in acts of hostility against the French. (19)

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