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

about the middle of Beekman's patent," in the northern part of the present county of Dutchess ; " that another tribe of River Indians called the Mayhiccondas were the ancient inhabitants

of the remaining eastern shore of said river ; that these two tribes constituted one nation." The testimony in regard to the

Montauks is not so clear and positive, but

is

sufficiently so to

indicate their status at the time of the discovery, whatever

maps the

island

is

assigned to the

may

On the earliest

have been their subsequent political relations. Mahicans.

DeRasieres,

writing in 1626, states that its occupation was then by the "old the Manhattans," and intimates that they were conquered

"by

Wappenos." x

penos,

or

While all the eastern Indians were called WapWapenacki, the reference,

in

this

instance,

is

clearly specific, not general, and evidently refers to the Wappinoo

or Wappinger branch of the Mahicans, who, whatever tainly.

In the Mohegan,

as

spoken at

the present time by their lineal descendof Wisconsin, ants, the Stockbridges

Maihtshoiv is the name of the wolf.