The Long House of the Iroquois controls everything west of the coast land from Carolina away up through Virginia to New York and the Canadas.

That means that Virginia has on two sides the most powerful tribes of savages in the world, and if ever the Iroquois found a general and made a common attack things would go ill with the Tidewater.

I tell you that so that you can understand Lawrence's doings.

He hates the Iroquois like hell, and so he likes their enemies.
He has lived for fifteen years among the Sioux, whiles with the Catawbas, whiles with the Manahoacs, but mostly with the Monacans.

We of the Free Companions see him pretty often, and bring him the news and little comforts, like good tobacco and _eau de vie_, that he cannot get among savages.