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.

common

It is called, in the cognate dialects

of the Algonquin, Myegan by the Kenistenos, and Myeengun by the Chippewas, In the old Algonquin, as given by etc. La Hontan, it is Mahingan, and we perceive that this was the term adopted by the early French writers for the MoheThe term itself, it is to be undergans.

may have

wolf, or a wolf of supernatural power, This was the badge of arms of the tribe, rather than the name of the tribe itself." Schooler aft. Compare with the statement of Capt. Hendrick, quoted ante, p. 42.

Their various tongues may be classed into four distinct languages, namely, Manhattan, Minqua, Savanoo and Wappanoos. With the Manhattans we include those

who live in the neighboring places along the North river, on Long Island, and at the Neversink ; with the Minquas, we stood, by which the tribe is known to us, is not the true Indian, but has been include the Senecas, the Maquas, and shorn of a part of its true sound by the other inland tribes. The Savanoos are early French, Dutch and English writers, '^the southern nations and the Wappanoos The modern tribe of the Mohegans, to the eastern. Van der Donck, N. T. Hist. whom allusion' has been made, called Soc. Coll., ad Series, i, zo6; Wassenaar, themselves Muhhekanleiv . * * Mohcgan Doc.