Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . e City Hall,unearthed a stone hammer, a skull, and a flint arrow-head, connected our civilization and history with that dayback of 1795, back of Baron La Hontan, back of La Salle and Hennepin, back of Hendrick Hudson, back ofColumbus, the Spanish sailor of Palos—back, back to a time when Europe was sleeping, fitfully, in the middle LLUSTRATED ^SvFFALOj^i. THE QUEENCITY OF THE LAKES. jiijcs. Then we know from Indian traditions, handed down by the story-tellers and song-keepers of the Iro-•quois—who loved history and anecdote, and who held these
Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . e City Hall,unearthed a stone hammer, a skull, and a flint arrow-head, connected our civilization and history with that dayback of 1795, back of Baron La Hontan, back of La Salle and Hennepin, back of Hendrick Hudson, back ofColumbus, the Spanish sailor of Palos—back, back to a time when Europe was sleeping, fitfully, in the middle LLUSTRATED ^SvFFALOj^i. THE QUEENCITY OF THE LAKES. jiijcs. Then we know from Indian traditions, handed down by the story-tellers and song-keepers of the Iro-•quois—who loved history and anecdote, and who held these traditions sacred,—that before they themselves oc-cupied the site of Buffalo with their wijtwanis, a neutral nation, the Xcutors, known as the Eric or Cat tribe,lived on the banks of the Ti-i/ou-si/o-ini (place of bass-woods), or Buffalo (reck. West of tlieni lived thellurons; E;, the Iroquois, sworn enctnies of each other. Like those little. struiTirlinii nations of Europe, whose home Fate (lecrec(l t be between two powerful.
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