Like more civilized people they took up the hatchet against a tribe of the same stock, if occasion arose, as freely as against an enemy of another race. Conflicting claims to lands, disputed boundaries, and the rivalries of neighborhoods, not unfrequently gave rise to enmities and wars. Thus in 1609, the tribes on the western side of the bay of New York and the lower Hudson, and those on the eastern side, were bitter enemies,' although all were tribes and sub-tribes of the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware stock.

Among the Lenni-Lenape there were but three clans or families, designated from their totems or badges, as the Unamis, or Turtle (or Tortoise) clan, the Unalachtgo or Turkey, and the Minsi or Wolf, clans,^ to one, or the other of which, belonged every tribe or minor sub-division of the Delaware stock. The tribes east of the Hudson, and all the sea coast tribes on both sides of Long Island Sound belonged to the Turkey clan, the tribes between the Hudson and the Alleghanies to the Minsi (sometimes termed Moncej') or Wolf clan, and those on the Lower Delaware, Lower Susquehanna, and Potomac to that of the Turtle (or Tortoise) clan.

The first writer on New Netherland, was Johan (John) de Laet, a learned man, a native of Antwerp) but a resident of the city of Leyden. He wrote in 1622, and first published in 1625, sixteen years only afler the discovery, through the Elzevirs at Leyden a "History of the New World," which contains the first historical account of what is now New York. He was a director of the Dutch West India Company, subsequently one of the first patroons of New Nether-