The Count De Frontenac attacks Onondaga in Person
with the whole Force of Canada. The Five
Nations continue the War with the French, and
make Peace with the Dionondadies.
The Conduct which the English and French observed
in regard to the Five Nations, immediately after
the Peace of Ryswick.
196
Treaties, Charters, publick Acts &c. from pag. 204, to the End.
THE
I N T R O D U C T I O N,
BEING
A short View of the Form of Government of the Five Nations, and of their Laws, Customs, &c.
It is necessary to know something of the Form of Government of the People, whose History one is about to know, and a few Words will be sufficient to give the Reader a Conception of that of the Five Nations, because it still remains under original Simplicity, and free from those complicated Contrivances, which have become necessary to the Nations, where Deceit and Cunning have increased as much as their Knowledge and Wisdom.