through the thick gloom which shrouds the history of their sub all the degradation and reproach which was " a nation of them as women," there runs a thread heaped upon

jugation, through

of light revealing their former greatness, pleading the causes of their decay, promising that their dead shall live again.

Not in

the eternal darkness which shuts in the Eries is that light lost, but from its prison house breaks in brilliancy, redeeming the

and wringing from their ancient subjugators, shivering BROTHERS. under adverse fortune, the greeting past,

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

ANALYSIS OF TRIBES AND CHIEFTAINCIES.

ASSENAAR and De Laet supply the earliest account of the subtribal divisions, or chieftaincies of In dians occupying the valley of the Hudson. The

former writes these tribes

:

:

" Below

Mechkentowoon and

Maikans are situate Tappents, on the west side ; the

Two nations lie there Wickagjock and Wyeck, on the east side. lower down at Klinkersberg. 1 At the Fisher's Hook 2 are the Pacbany,

Warenecker,

Warrawannankoncks.

the mouth."

In one place,

The Manhates are situated at

Esopus, are two or three tribes.

The latter corrects the geography of his prede more " On the

cessor and gives the location of what he calls tribes 3 at

New York, he says

Commencing accurately. east side, on the main land, dwell the Manhattans, a bad race :

of savages, who have always been very obstinate and unfriendly towards our people.

On the west side are the Sanhickans, who

are the deadly enemies of the Manhattans, and a much better people. They dwell along the bay, and in the interior. The