The fifty sachems will never let the great League join Onontio.

Champlain and Frontenac have been gone long, but their shadows still stand between the French and the Hodenosaunee, and there is Quebec, the lost Stadacona of the Ganegaono, whom you call the Mohawks.
As long as the sun and stars stand in the heavens the Keepers of the Eastern Gate are the enemies of the French.

Even now, as you know, they fight by the side of the Americans and the English." "It is true.

I was wrong to question the faith of the great nations of the Hodenosaunee.

If none save the Mohawks fight for us it is at least certain that they will not fight against us, and even undecided, while we're at present suffering from disaster, they'll form a neutral barrier, in part, between the French and us.