Were the line strictly drawn, point of a different civilization. however, it might be shown that, as a whole, they compared favorably with nations upon whom light had fallen for sixteen hundred years. This at least appears to their credit, that were none who were cross-eyed, blind, hunch-backed or limping ; all were well-fash crippled, lame, in constitution of ioned, strong body, well-proportioned and without blemish. Until touched and warped by wrong treat ment, wherever they were met, whether on the Potomac, the

among them

there

Delaware, the Hudson, or the Connecticut, they were and generous in their intercourse with the whites.

liberal

More

sinned against than sinning, they left behind them evidences of great wrongs suffered, their enemies being the witnesses.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

*

NATIONAL AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, TOTEMIC CLASSI FICATIONS, POLITICAL RELATIONS, ETC.

HE names and location of the Indian tribes were not ascertained with writers.

clearness

Wassenaar

states

by the early Dutch that

at

the time of

the discovery, and for some years after occupation * by the Dutch, the Maikans or Mabicans, held twenty-five miles on both sides of the river in the vicinity of Fort Orange ; '

that the

Maquas, or Mohawks, resided in the interior ; that Fort Orange was erected on the lands of the Mahicans, whose castle was on the opposite (east) side of the river. De Laet 1625, that the Maquas held the west shore, and Wassenaar concludes with a similar statement ; but if it is

writes in