Note 60 — Chapter II · - THE IROQUOIS GENS.
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“Their hearts burn violently day and night without intermission till they have shed blood for blood. They transmit from father to son the memory of the loss of their relations, or one of their own tribe, or family, though it was an old woman.”—Adair’s Hist. Amer. Indians, Lond. ed., 1775, p. 150.