determination of the council in favor of neutrality,

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

The whole was conducted in a very decent and quiet manner. Indeed, now and then one or the other would lie flat upon his back and rest himself, and sometimes they would stop, joke and laugh heartily." The second of the national divisions was the

MAHICANS,

called by the Dutch, Maikans, and, by the French missionaries,

" the nine nations of

Mankingansf gathered between Manhattan The several nations composing

and the environs of Quebec."

the confederacy have never been designated, although certain general divisions appear under the titles of the Mabicans, the Soquatucks, the Horicons, the Pennacooks, the Nipmufks, the

Abenaquis, the Nawaas, the Sequins, and the Wappingers, which, confederated action, may be classed under the generic name

in

Men of the East.

of Abenaqui, or Wapanackki, that is,

The

representative. nation of the confederacy on the Hudson, the Mabican, appears to have taken original position there, and to have sent out subduing colonies .to the south and east, originat

To

the noble stream upon ing other national combinations. which they were found by the Dutch they gave their name, the

Mahicanituck

;

and kindled

their ancient council-fire at

Scho-

To trace

dac, opposite the site of the present city of Albany.

movements prior to the discovery,

tradition and theory be that in the course of presumed may the ages they seized the head waters of the Connecticut, the Housatonic, and the Hudson, and from their inland position their