beat down theii: oppoHents with their war-clubs,
aiid took a great inany prisoners. The prisoners
were:immediately bound wit h their arms behind,
and tied’ to trees. Nothing could resist their
impetuosity. The Kah>kwah chiefs determined
to fly, and leave-the Serieeas .masters of the field.
In this hard and disastrous battle, which was
fought by the Senecas alone, and without aid
from their confederates, the Kah-kwahs lost a
very great number of their mCn, in slain and
prisoners-" But those who fled were- not pert
mitted to escape unpursued, and having been
reinforced from thereast, they followed them
and attacked them in their residence- on the'
Deoseowa (Buffalo creek), and Eighteen-mile
Oledk, which they were obliged to abandon, and
fly to the Ohieo, the Seneca name for the Alleghany.
The Senecas pursued*'them in their canoes,
in the descent of this.&tream. TheydisCo^
vered their encampment bn an island,' in numbers
superior to their own. To deceive them,
the Senecas, on putting ashore, carried their canoes
across a narrow peninsula, by means, of
which they again entered the river above.' * New
parties appeamd, to the enemy, to be thus continually
arriving, and led them greatly to overestimate
their numbers. ^This was at the'closp
, pf day. In the morning not an enemy was to
fe seen.. The Eries had fled down the river, and
have never since appeared. It is supposed they
yet exist west of the Mississippi.
’ f wo characteristic traits of boasting happened
in the first great battle above described. The
Kah-kwah women carried along, in the rear of
the warriors, packs of moccasins, for the women
and children whom they expected to be made
captives;» in the Seneca villages. The Senecas,
on the other hand, said as they went out to battle,
“ Let us not fight them too near for fear of
the steneh,” alluding to the anticipated heaps
of slain.
It may here be inquired, perhaps, whether
the Kah-kwahs were not a remnant, or at least
allies of tffe anfcient Alleg’bans, who gave name
to the river, and thus to the ^mountains. The
French idea,, that the 'EriesMere, exterminated,
is explqded Jjy' this, tradition of Blacksnake; at
least if we> concede that Etie 'and Kah-kwah,
were synonytas. A peoptev.who were called
Ererions by the Wyandotfi,. and Kah-kwahs by
the IroqUois, may have had many other, .names,
from other tribesy}? It, would contradict all Indian
historVi -if they had not^as many names as
there were diverse nations’ to whom they were
known. .
ANTIQUE INSCRIBED STONE, QE MANLIUS.
It iAj£OHia.s|x; and twenty yearC^ince a farmer*,
in the town pf jMarilius, in Onondaga county, in
gathering stones p.nt'ofibis^eld; turned up one,
Which had an inscription of a rude .character, on
its under sicjta, with a date. It appeared to be a
boulder, which had been appropriated to the
purpose of a grave st.one^ by some European