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

must be blended.

It

a savage horde upon the sea-coast, giving birth to the Pequots and the Narragansetts, and from thence

rolled

overrunning

New

the tribes on the southern part of the peninsula of York and the adjacent islands, and reuniting with the parent stock as

one independent tribe in the position

Muhhekaneeiv

is

the orthography of

the original name as given by Dr. Edwards, for many years among them,

The Dutch called them Mahikanders the French knew them as the Mouri;

gans and Manhingans 5 the English as the Mohiccons, Mohegans, Muhheeckanew, etc. Hubbard, referring to the Pequots, " says that it was commonly reported, about the time when New England was

in

which they were found

by the English," that they, being a more fierce, cruel, and warlike people than the rest of the Indians, came down out of the inland parts of the conplanted

"

tinent,

and by force seized upon the became

goodliest places near the sea, and a terror to all their neighbors."

Indian

Wars, 14. The relationship between the Mahicans and Pequots is so conclusively shown that one must have apparently originated the other.