with each distinct tribe, for the latter,like families,sprung from one fountain-head. The science of ethnology furnishes us with very meagre information; simply the color of the skin and hair, stature and mode of living. Failing, however, to associ- ate them with any of the races of the Eastern

by Five Nations Iroquois (Wissler, 1940; Hunt, 1960), which led to their ultimate disorganization as a people (Talbot, 1684 and Wal- lace, 1961). Among the Iroquois, a tribe actually involved may have been the Seneca. On this score, a Jesuit Relation of 1675 records the elation of the Senaca over