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. Hist., in, 46. was a phrase to denote an enchanted

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been their origin, seized the southern part of the peninsula and adjacent islands, and established themselves in the Highlands. Long anterior to Nimham's affidavit, however, the Montauks

were severed from the Mahicans, and became tributaries to the Dutch and to the English.

The original supremacy of the IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY is assumed by almost every writer of Indian history. "From their ancient fortresses," says one of their ardent but not alto gether truthful admirers, "war parties continually went forth ; their war-cry sounded from the lakes to the far west, and rolled

along the banks of the Mississippi and over the far-off fields of the south. They defeated the Hurons under the very walls of

Quebec, put out the council-fires of the Gakkwas and the Eries* eradicated the Susquehannocks 2 and placed the Lenapes, under tribute. The terror of their name went wherever their war canoes paddled, and nations trembled when they heard the name of Konoshioni." Another asserts that "long before