CHAPTER V.

1755-1763.

THE WILDERNESS AND ITS TENANTS AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH WAR.

_Sufferings of the Frontier.--Treaties with the Western Tribes.-- Christian Frederic Post.--The Iroquois.--The remote Tribes.--The Forest.--Indian Population.--Condition of the Tribes.--Onondaga.--The Delawares and neighboring Tribes.--Their Habits and Condition.--The Shawanoes, Miamis, Illinois, and Wyandots.--English Settlements.-- Forest Thoroughfares.--Fur-traders.--Their Habits and Character.--The Forest Traveller.--The French at the Illinois.--Military Life in the Forest.--The Savage and the European.--Hunters and Trappers.-- Civilization and Barbarism._ 111