Iroquois prosperous settlements in the 19th century, supporting themselves via farming and the sale of sleds, snowshoes, boats, and baskets. In 1884, about 100 Canadian Iroquois were hired by the British government to serve as river pilots and boatmen for the relief expedition for the besieged General Charles Gordon in Khartoum in the Sudan, taking the force commanded by Field Marshal Wolsely up the Nile from Cairo to Khartoum. On their way back to Canada, the Canadian Iroquois river pilots and boatmen stopped in London, where they were personally thanked by Queen Victoria for their services to Queen and Country. In
Name of Hungary Name of Hungary Hungary, the name in English for the country of the same name, is an exonym derived from the Medieval Latin '. The Latin name itself derives from the ethnonyms ', ', and ' for the Uralic steppe people that conquered the land today known as Hungary in the 9th and 10th centuries. Medieval authors denominated the Hungarians as ', but the Hungarians even contemporarily denominate themselves "s" and their homeland '. Primary sources use several names for the Magyars/Hungarians. However, their original historical endonym/ethnonym — the name they used to refer to themselves in the Early Middle