The error of Van der Donck's informants was in confusing totemic emblems, and similarity of The totem of the Wappingers dialect, with tribal jurisdiction. as well as that of the

Esopus clans, was the Wolf, as already

stated, while below the Highlands

" Daniel

Nimham,

a native Indian

and acknowledged sachem or king of a certain tribe of Indians known and called by the name of Wappingtrs, represents that the tribe formerly were numerous, at present consists of about two hundred and twenty-seven persons j that they

came

the

Turkey of

the

have always had a sachem or king whom they have acknowledged to be the head of the tribe, and that, by a regular line of succession the government of the tribe descended to the said present sachem." New York Land Papers, xvm, 127.

O.P HUDSON'S

RIPER.

Lenapes, constituting a clear distinction from their neighbors on the opposite shore. Gallatin strengthens the error by introduc ing the fact that the Wappingers were a party to the treaty of Easton, but was evidently without knowledge that they were recent emigrants from York. 1

New

III.

The MAHICANS.

The territory of the Mablcans joined the Wappingers and Sequins on the south, and stretched thence north, embracing the head waters of the Hudson, the Housatonic and the Connecti cut, and the water-shed of lakes George and

Champlain.

The

chieftaincies of the tribe have a very imperfect preservation, but its I. The Mahicans, general divisions are indicated by the terms as applied to that portion occupying the valley of the Hudson and :