ABSTRACT
"The speech that, Ondaaiondiont made at his arrival was not long. He told them that he came from the land of Souls, where war and the terrors of the enemy had laid everything waste, where the fields were covered only with blood, where the cabins were filled only with corpses, and that there remained to them no life except what was needed to come and tell their friends that they might have pity on a land that was drawing to its end."—A Huron Ambassador to the Susquchannocks in complaint at the Iroquois devastation of the Huron mission country, 1647. 1
