CHAPTER VI.

THE WAR BETWEEN THE IBOQUIB AND WESTERN HUBONS, TEBMINATING IN THE WARS BETWEEN THE OJIBWAYS & IROQUI3 IN CANADA WEST.

“ The death shot hissing from afar, The shock, the shout, the green of war.”

Moan than two hundred winters have clothed the mountains of the North with snow, which as many summer suns have melted, since the battle shout of the HUIODS, in their once happy and peaceful homes, died away, and the Iroquois shouted their note of triumph.

Long and bloody had been the struggle between the Hurons and Iroquois when they were heard of by Cham- plain in the year 1608. The one nation occupied the whole tract of land about the three lakes Ontario, Erie, and that which still bears the name of the Nation.

They formed a confederation of five Nations, as did their brethren the Iroquois, who occupied at that time