either lost in death, or writhing in their blood;
and such was the furious prejudice of the savages,
that not one escaped, or was left alive to relate
the sad disaster. ...
“ The French in Canada, on making inquiries
respecting the fate of their friends, were informed
by the Indians that they had gone towards the
south, with a company of people who came from
thence, and at the .same time showing a Spanish
coat of. arms, and other national trinkets, confirmed
the Canadian French in the opinion that
their unfortunate countrymen had indeed gone,
thither, and in all probability perished in the
immense forests. This opinion, was also mea-
sureably confirmed by a Frenchman- who had
long lived with the Senecas, and who visited
the Onondagas at the time the Spaniards were
at the village, but left before the disaster, and
could only say that he had seen them the r e -
Thus lamentably perished the first#hristian
colony, which, so far as is known, was ever at*
tempted to be settled in the interior of western
New York. A plan, fearful in itself; for a moment’s
reflection must have made it evident to
the French, that they Were not going to plant
themselves in the midst of a mentally broken
down people, as were the races of Peru, or Mexico,
who had long given up their personal freedom
and rights to be vested in a hereditary sovereign ;
but among a people who retained all these rights
in the fullest manner, who were proud, bold and
jealous to a fault, esteeming themselves superior
to all other men, and who had a fixed and numerous
priesthood, bent on retaining their sway;
in a word, among the Konoshioni, or indomitable
Iroquois, It was a colony, founded in love,
cursed % the spirit o f gold, and extinguished in
blood. •