This is, manifestly, a compound declarative phrase, and not a simple nominative, and is equivalent to the phrase, '• I am ^ Mohegan." It is in accordance both with religious custom, and the usage of the Indian priesthood, to infer a unity of superstitious practices in nearly affiliated tribes. In this manner the word "Mohegan" was used to denote^ not a common wolf, but the caries lupus, under the supposed influence of medical or necromantic arts. In other words, Mohegan was a phrase to denote an enchanted wolf, or a wolf of supernatural power. This was the badge or arms of the tribe, rather than the name of the tribe itself. And this also, it may be inferred, constituted originally, the point of distinctiouj between them and the Minci, or wolf tribe proper. The affinities of the Mohegans with the Minciy or Moncees, on the west banks of the Hudson, and through them with the Delawaj'Gs, are apparent in the language, and were well recognized at the era of the settlement."a

" The universal name the Monseys have for New York, (says Mr. Heckewelder) is Laaphawachking, or the place of stringing headsy '

The Mohegans were again sub-divided into numerous bands, each known by a distinctiye name. Among these, inhabiting the County, may be enumerated the Siwanoys, who occupied the northern shores of the Sound *• from Norwalk to 24 miles to the neighborhood of Hellgate." How far they claimed jurisdiction inland is uncertain.

The Manhattans had their principal settlement on New York island, and from thence north to the bounds of Yonkers, nearly opposite T'«pp^n, The WECKauASj^Ecics possessed the