Custom would, perhaps, warrant the continuance of the name as designating a chieftaincy, but the evidence is conclu sive that it was not used by the Indians in any such connection, but was a generic term designating not only the occupants of the island now called Manhattan, but of Long Island, and the mainland north The term Man of Manhattan Island. hattan indicates this, being apparently

formerly many people have dwelt, but who for the most part have died or have

been driven away by the Wappenos." Again, referring to Long Island, he says " It is inhabited by the old Manhattans :

(Manhatesen) ; they are about two hundred or three hundred strong, women

De Laet they call sackimes (sachems)." " On the east side on the main says Block, land, dwell the Manhattans." whose vessel was burned in the lower :

Eliot's

bay in 1614, and who there built another, was fed and protected by the Manhattans, not on Manhattan Island, but, as appears by the statements of the Long Island

Bible, is given as the equivalent of islands, " the or as applied to the people, people

Indians, this care and protection was in the territory and on the island of the

of the islands." (Historical Magazine, The statements of the Dutch i, 89). confirm this interpretation. historians

latter.

der Donck and Wassenaar agree that there were four languages spoken by the natives, namely, the Manhattan,

compared with the Albany Records, that the name Manhattan, is *' from or after the tribe of savages among whom the " nor Dutch made their first settlement ;