Nor will it in this place be improper to give some account of our friends in those parts, whom we call the Mohawks, viz. The Iroquois, commonly called the Mohawks, the Oneiadaes, the Onondagues. Cayugaes, and the Senekaes. In all accounts they are called the Six Nations of the New York Friendly Indians; the Tuscaroroes, stragglers from the old Tuscararoes of North Carolina, lately are reckoned as the sixth. I shall here reckon them as I have been informed they were formerly.

— 1. The Mohawks: they live upon the Mohawk's or Schenectady River, and head or live north of New York. Pennsylvania, Maryland, and some part of Virginia: having a castle or village, westward from Albany 40 miles, and another 65 miles west, and about 150 fencible men.

— 2. The Oneiades, about 5O miles from the Mohawks second village, consisting of about 200 fighting men.

— 3. The Ononda about 25 miles further, (the famous Oswego, a trading place on the lake Ontario, is in their country) consisting of about 250 men.

— 4. The Cayugaes, about 70 miles further, of about 130 men: and,

—5. The Senecaes, who reach a great way down the river Susquehana, consist of about 700 in marching, fighting men: so that the fighting men of the five or six nations of Mohawks may be reckoned at 1500 men, and extend from Albany, west 400 miles, lying in about 30 tribes or governments.

Besides these, there is settled above Montreal, which lies N. E. of Oswego, a tribe of scoundrels, runaways from the Mohawks: they are called Kahnuages, consisting of about 3O men. This short account of these nations I think necessary to make the English reader acquainted with, as I may have occasion to mention things concerning: some of them.