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Updated: May 11, 2025
In the following May, an Onondaga orator, on a peace visit to Montreal, said, in a speech to the Governor, "Our young men will no more fight the French; but they are too warlike to stay at home, and this summer we shall invade the country of the Eries. The occasion of this new war is said to have been as follows.
It was arranged that Robert should sleep first and the Onondaga gave his faithful promise to awaken him in four hours. The two lads meant to take the burden of the watch upon themselves, and, unless Willet awoke, of his own accord, he was to lie there until day. Robert lay down upon his blanket, went to sleep in an instant, and the next instant Tayoga awakened him.
It seemed that Tayoga caught glimpses of his comrade's face and with his Onondaga insight read his mind. "Dagaeoga, who wishes harm to nobody, now craves the battle, nevertheless," he said, taking the knife from between his teeth for a moment or two. "I'm eager to be in it as soon as I can in order to have it over as soon as we can," said Robert, imitating him.
The Onondaga came and then young Lennox said to his two comrades: "Are you willing to trust me in the matter of Garay, our prisoner?" "Yes," they replied together. Robert went to the man, who was still immersed in his gross feeding, and tapped him on the shoulder. "Listen, Garay," he said. "You're the bearer of secret and treacherous dispatches, and you're a spy.
Atotarho, who by tradition was an Onondaga, is the great embodiment of the Iroquois courage, wisdom and heroism, and he is invested with allegoric traits which exalt him to a kind of superhuman character. Unequalled in war and arts his fame spread abroad, and exalted the Onondaga nation in the highest scale.
The foremost, a plumed and cinctured warrior, depicted as addressing the Onondaga chief, holds in his right hand, as a staff, his flint-headed spear, the ensign, it may be supposed, which marks him as the representative of the Caniengas, or "People of the Flint." Behind him another plumed figure bears in his hand a bow with arrows, and at his shoulder a quiver.
Lawrence, they had to wait for the current to carry the ice out. At places they cut a passage through the honeycombed ice with their hatchets, and again they were compelled to portage over the ice. The water was so high that the rapids were safely ridden by all the boats but one, which was shipwrecked, and three of the men were drowned. They had left Onondaga on the 20th of March, 1658.
The Onondaga wondered how he had been taken, but whatever the way, he was in the hands of enemies who knew little mercy. The warriors around the fire uttered a universal yell of triumph when they saw the captain, and many of them ran forward to meet Grosvenor, whirling their tomahawks and knives in his face, and dancing about as if mad with joy.
In July, 1743, John Bartram made a journey from Philadelphia to Onondaga to attend, with Conrad Weisar, a council of the Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga chiefs. At Shamokin he quartered with a trader who had an Indian wife, and at a village of the Delawares. "As soon as we alighted," he remarks, "they showed us where to lay our luggage, and then brought us a bowl of boiled squashes, cold.
Robert and Tayoga followed carefully for several hundred yards; then they were surprised to see the trail curve sharply about, and go back toward the main force. "We must have passed them," said Robert, "although we were too far away to see each other." "It would seem so," said the Onondaga.
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