held possession, under sub-tribal organizations, of the east bank

of the river from an undefined point north of Albany to the sea, including Long Island ; that their dominion extended e^st to the Connecticut, where they joined kindred tribes ; that on the

west bank of the Hudson they ran down as far as Catskill, and west to Schenectady ; that they were met on the west by the Mohawks^ and on the south by chieftaincies

territory of the

Seventy-five English miles.

OF HUDSON'S RWER.

acknowledging the supremacy of the Mlnsls, a totemic tribe of the Lenni Lenapes, and that the latter extended territory of the thence to the sea, and west to and beyond the Delaware 'river.

Pending the early operations of the Dutch traders, this ori The Mahlcans ginal classification was somewhat changed.

on the west

side of

the river to Van Rensselaer, retaining only a castle at

Cohoes

sold a considerable portion of their lands

falls

and one at Katskill, and admitted the Mohawks to territorial

Although the latter sovereignty north of the Mohawk river. were not in possession by castles and villages, it may be ad mitted tha:, practically, as early as

1630, three great divisions

or nations were represented on the Hudson

:

The iROQyois,

the MAHICANS, and the LENNI LENAPES, or Delawares as they were more modernly known. The first of these nations,- the IROQUOIS, was represented by a tribe called by themselves

Kayingehaga ; by their enemies, the Mahicans, the Maquas ; by the Dutch, Makwaes; by the English, Mohawks, and by the