Nearly all the tribes had now obtained firearms.

A war had ceased to be an agreeable shooting-party for some one chief with an unfair advantage over his rivals.

A balance of power, or at any rate an equality of risk, made for peace.

But it would be unjust to overlook the missionaries' share in bringing about comparative tranquillity.

Throughout all the wars of the musket, and the dread slaughter and confusion they brought about, most of the teachers held on.