the north-west called a council among themselves, in which it was determined upon what should be done.

This council, according to ancient tradition, must have been held at the outlet of French River, and on the Northern shore of Lake Huron.

The Hurons assembled themselves in council, and in the course of their deliberations, they desired several of their Chiefs to visit the great Ojibway family on Lake Superior, and see whether that people would forgive them the wrongs they had done them, and admit them as their allies.

The war canoes of the Hurons were manned and paddled on the bosom of the great lake in search of a place of refuge. They arrived quite late in the autumn at the eastermost village of the Ojibways, a situation they named Pe-quak-qua-wah-ming, (Round Point,) near the fork of a bay called by the French Aunce Bay, now known as Ke-wa-o-non.

It was the policy of the Hurons to present themselves in a pitiable condition before their superiors, the Ojibway family of the great lake, that they might the more easily obtain their favor and sympathy. Tradition informs us that they came and presented themselves before the Council-door of that Nation, and begged them to spare their own children's lives. They had painted their

faces black, rent their clothes, and with emaciated and haggard frames, came to implore their aid. They narrated their misfortunes, to incite the pity of the nation. The Ojibways saw them, and yielded to pity and compassion. The Hurons were received as friends; they overcame the war spirit of the Ojibways, who kindly seated them at their side.

The Huron Chief detailed the barbarous acts of their brethren, and narrated in glowing language their cruelty. That their allies had driven them from their lands; that their children had been thrown on the blaze of their own fires in their own wigwams, and the wigwams beneath which they had resided for years, reduced to ashes!— Some were compelled to drink the blood of their own children, while those who were carried away into their own brethren's country, were denied food, and were offered their own children's flesh in its stead.

That country was covered with blood, and with the mangled remains of their fathers who had fought for their lands. The exulting cry of the Oneida, mingled with the shouts of the Mohawk, was heard in the land where once they lived. They said that the graves of their people were desecrated, and that the bodies of many of their women and children lay unburied on their battle-fields, from the waters of Erie to the valley

of Ottawa in the North. The Hurons related the account of their children's massacre with tears and sobs, and by such means moved those who had been their enemies to pity them, and kindled in the hearts of some a feeling of revenge upon the Iroquois, who had so recklessly overstepped the barrier which Nature hath raised in the hearts of all men. If thus the fugitive Hurons had gone to solicit aid in the midst of the Ojibway country, they could have aroused the bravery of the Nation to have gone in arms in their favor, and carried on war still longer.

At this time there lived the greatest of renowned warriors, Wah-boo-geeg, who dwelt at Pequakqua-wah-ming. His name has been handed down from generation to generation, and his bravery and fame been envied by all young warriors.

It is said that this Wah-boo-geeg arose in the council with a club in his hand, and remembering the Hurons and their many barbarous acts, shook the war club over their heads, and said that it was not fear which had led them to give them such a reception, but it was pity for their innocent children, that induced them to open their arms and receive them. He told them that henceforward none should molest-that their children and the children of his own people should sport together-that

the war club of the Ojibways should protect them-and that they were as numerous as the leaves of the forest trees, towards the setting sun.

A situation was assigned them near by where they and their children could reside, and be near the villages of the Ojibways. It was adjacent to a bay about fifteen miles eastward of Alluce Bay, and a river whose name has been Huron from that day to this.

I have been thus particular in naming the events which led to the subjugation of the Huron Iroquois by their own brethren, the Iroquois of the East, that the reader may be informed of the chief cause of their subsequent success, which was the fact of their having enlisted in their favor the Ojibway Nation. The Western Iroquois, finding a refuge in the midst of Western tribes, endeavored to stop the commerce which had been commenced by the great Ottawa river, and profitably carried on between the French and the Ojibways of Lake Superior. This rash attempt on the part of the Iroquois brought on the disastrous war between that Nation and the Ojibways, an account of which is reserved for the next chapter.

Before the dispersion of the Hurons no difficulty existed between the Ojibways and the Eastern Iroquois, but the Western Hurons often waylaid the hunters of the Ojibway Nation, and continuing so to do eventually aroused the war-whoop of revenge far and near.

After the year 1608, Champlain traders began to carry on their commercial transactions on the waters of the Mahahmoo Sebee, (Trading River,) which introduced among the Indians fire-arms woollen-goods, and steel for weapons of war.

The next year (1609,) Champlain made a treaty with