. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 396 THE SENECA NATION news of the intended attack. Realizing- its probable conse- quences to himself and his colleagues he fled in 1684 to Lake Ontario presumably in company of Father Pierron and found refuge upon a bark owned by De la Barre. Father Raffeix had departed in 1680. The threat of Big Mouth that they would war upon the western Indian allies of the French proved to be no idle boast. In 1686 Father Lamberville wrote from Onondaga (*1) to Father Bruyas that a war party of two hundred Seneca warri- ors had
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 396 THE SENECA NATION news of the intended attack. Realizing- its probable conse- quences to himself and his colleagues he fled in 1684 to Lake Ontario presumably in company of Father Pierron and found refuge upon a bark owned by De la Barre. Father Raffeix had departed in 1680. The threat of Big Mouth that they would war upon the western Indian allies of the French proved to be no idle boast. In 1686 Father Lamberville wrote from Onondaga (*1) to Father Bruyas that a war party of two hundred Seneca warri- ors had just returned from the country of the Miamis and that they claimed to bring with them five hundred captives. Their downfall however was near. De la Barre's disastrous attempt to lower the pride of the Senecas was followed at once by his recall as Governor of New France. He was superseded by the Marquis de Denon- ville, a "pious colonel of dragoons". (*2) His coming to assume his office boded ill for the Senecas. There is no doiibt that at this time the Senecas were at the zenith of their power. Numerically they had always been the strongest of the League. They had always been the most independent and arrogant also and because of their almost continuous success in their incessant wars they considered their nation invincible and their country invulnerable. Their recent diplomatic victory over the French added largely to this feel- ing and they took immediate advantage of the prestige thus gained to attempt an alliance of the French allies amongst the western Indians, with the deliberate plan to alienate them from the French. So, though warfare was being carried on against the Illinois, there was intriguing with the Hurons and Ottawas of the Upper Lake region. That the new governor, Denonville, thoroughly appreciat- ed the dangers to Canada from and through the Senecas is shown by his letters to the Minister at home in France. "If we have war nothing can save the c
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