their northern boundaries were supposed originally to be the heads of the great rivers Susquehanna and Delaware, and their southern .boundaries that ridge of hills known in New Jersey by the name of Muskanecum, and in Pennsylvania, by those of Lehigh, Coghnewago,

in the vicinity of Albany.

etc."

organization.

"The Bear tribe was considered the

leading totem and entitled to the office Mahican Tradition, of chief sachem."

The location was about ten miles south of Maghackemek, in the present " The third state of New Jersey. tribe, the Wolf, commonly called the Minsi, which we have corrupted into Monscys, had chosen to live back of the two other and formed a kind of bulwark for

tribes,

Hcckeiuelder.

The

classification

is

not

positive,

There were other than the Turtle totem on the island. 6 " Mohcgan is a word, the meaning of which is not explained by the early writers ;

but if we

may trust the deductions

of philology, it needs create

little

uncer-

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

argument that the name of the Mahican confederacy was from its prevailing totemic emblem. For dividing the territory of the Mahlcans at RoelofF Jansen's kill, and again at Long Island, there is other than totemic au In regard to the former, the affidavit of King Nimham is on record, under date of October 13, 1730, in which it

thority.

is

stated that the deponent was

"a River Indian of the tribe of

the Wappinots, which tribe was the ancient inhabitants of the eastern shore of Hudson's river, from the city of New York to