Francis Amasa Walker

But for nearly two centuries after Champlain, the Iroquois retained their hold on the territory from Lake Ontario to the Hudson.

The conquests and wars of extermination of these savages, and the terror which they inspired, have been summed up by General Francis Walker in the saying, They were the scourge of God upon the Aborigines of the Continent.

The Iroquois were in some respects superior to most of the Indians of the Continent, though they had a limited agriculture, and though they made hardly any use of metals, they had advanced further in other directions than most savages.

They built of logs houses long enough to be divided into several compartments, with a family in each compartment.