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

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