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

The IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY 2 was, at this

French Agniers. time,

composed of

five

tribes

under the modern names of

Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas and bore the of Aquinoshioni or Konoshiont, that is, Cabin-makers, or People of the Long House, as applied to their territorial posses sions and national organization. That " long house " subse quently reached from the banks of the Hudson to the shores of

title

Lake Erie, and from the Katskill range to the St. Lawrence the Eastern door guarded by the Mohawks and the western by the Senecas.

The traditions held by the Iroquois respecting their origin and confederate organization^ are that, like the Athenian, they sprung from the earth

itself.

In remote ages they had been falls of the Osh-wah-kee,

confined under a mountain near the

The appellation,

Iroquois, was first applied to them by the French, because they usually began and finished their discourses or palaver with the

word

hiro,

which means either "I say," or "I have said," combined as an affix with the word kong, an exclamation expressing joy or