The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . AN INDIAN COUNCIL (FROM LA HONTAN). THE IROQUOIS BLOCKADE 17 been won with their own blood, and by their own brav-ery, incensed the Iroqnois beyond measnre against them. Of course the French promised to protect the residentnations against the Iroquois, as if it was an easy thingfor them to do, when the plain fact was that they couldnot protect themselves, or were kept in constant fear oftheir own lives. It had been early found that the short way to the Mis-sissippi lay around the stupendous cataract that guarded. ANCIENT STONE AND COPPER RELICS
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . AN INDIAN COUNCIL (FROM LA HONTAN). THE IROQUOIS BLOCKADE 17 been won with their own blood, and by their own brav-ery, incensed the Iroqnois beyond measnre against them. Of course the French promised to protect the residentnations against the Iroquois, as if it was an easy thingfor them to do, when the plain fact was that they couldnot protect themselves, or were kept in constant fear oftheir own lives. It had been early found that the short way to the Mis-sissippi lay around the stupendous cataract that guarded. ANCIENT STONE AND COPPER RELICS. the Iroquois country at the west. It was as good, orbetter, than a Chinese Wall, and probably helped on theidea we find so generally prevailing, that a people, whosegateway had been built by the Great Manitou himself,must be under his special protection. This was Niagara—Niagara, the key of the lakes. La Salle, long-headed, astute, persuasive, had wheedled the Senecas into letting him build a sort of fort there, in the winter of 1678-79, to aid him in his explorations. This, however, was soon after burned, and it had not 2 18 THE IROQUOIS BLOCKADE been rebuilt. At this point, which La Salle had foreseencould be made impregnable to an enemy, the Iroquoishad as good as established a blockade, which shut outfree communication through the lakes. It therefore be-came an object of the first importance to the French toraise this blockade. The English took no active part in this rivalry, at first,except to protest that the Iroquois were the King of Eng-lands
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