...name of Algonquin made the Mohawks tremble. However, when the Dutch took possession of New Netherland, they furnished those people with firearms, with which...it was easy for them to conquer their conquerors, who were filled with terror at the mere sound of their guns. They became victorious everywhere and...

...increased in a few years as to reduce the Algonquins in turn to the same condition as its own. But this condition did not last long; for the Andastogehronnons...guns. And that is what has rendered them formidable everywhere, and victorious over all the Nations with whom they have been at war; it has also put into...