The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 2 Page 11

He stopped, hesitated, then, softly smiting one fist within the other:

“But now I think their doom is sounding — Seneca, lying Cayuga, traitorous Onondaga, Mohawk, painted renegade — all are to go down into utter annihilation. Nor is that all. We mean to sweep their empire from end to end, burn every town, every castle, every orchard, every grain field — lay waste, blacken, ravage, leave nothing save wind-blown ashes of that great Confederacy, and of the vast granary which has fed the British northern armies so long. Nothing must remain of the Long House; the Senecas shall die at the Western door; the Keepers of the Eastern door shall die. Only the Oneida may be spared — as many as have remained neutral or loyal to us — they and such of the Tuscaroras and Lenni-Lenape as have not