Nobles and poets alike contributed on the Indians' behalf, in gold or literature: Lord Gower, Charles, Landgrave of Hesse, Pope, Rousseau, Addison, and Steele. This came about after the audience granted by Queen Anne to chiefs of the Six Nations -the "Four Kings-"-who were conducted to London by Colonel Schuyler and Ex-Governor Nicholson of Maryland. After presenting their petitions to the Queen that she should send an army against the French, they were returned to their apartments in her Majesty's coach. Ballads were written in their honor, portraits were painted of " the Emperor of the Mohawks, wampum in hand, " and his three royal companions by Verelst, who " engrossed the fashion "; after their departure, their characters were assumed at masquerades.

Addison's version of what the Indians thought in their turn of the Court in wigs, powder, and patches is excessively pertinent and amusing. The "odd observations" of King Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash on English manners are presented by The Spectator.

"Their dress likewise is very barbarous, for they almost strangle themselves about the neck.... Instead of those beautiful feathers with which we adorn our heads, they often buy up a monstrous brush of hair, which . . . falls down in a large fleece . and are as proud of it as if it were their own growth . . . . The women look like angels, and would be more beautiful than the sun, were it not for little black spots that arev apt to break out on their faces, and sometimes rise in very odd figures.... When they disappear in one part of the face, they are apt to break out in another, insomuch that I have seen a spot upon the forehead in the afternoon which was upon the chin in the morning." [1]

The Valley Indians' dearest foe was, first, the Dutch trader from across the New York border, balancing his saddle-bags with evil fire-water; secondly, the French, who sent Indian viceroys to entice their young men from an English alliance, by holding orgies in the Taghonic woods. The Stockbridge tribe proved difficult to proselyte, and forthwith French and Indians prudently omitted Housa tonic towns in their war programme of pillage and massacre.