My day In the morning I saw the sons of Unami and yet, before the night has come, have I

lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mabicans"

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX I.

i

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

HE personal history of the early Indian kings and chiefs who held dominion in the valley of the Hud

son, is involved in even greater obscurity than that

which attaches

to their contemporaries

in other

world.

Of MASSASOIT, MIANTONOMOH,

UNCAS, PHILIP, and other

New England chiefs, and of Powparts

of the

new

HATTAN and POCAHONTAS of Virginia, there is some definite who welcomed the emigrants from MONEMIUS and UNUWATS, Holland, names alone survive.

information ; but of those

whose castles Hudson visited, have no record except in the deed which they gave to their lands, while AEPJIN, king of the Mahicans, and GOETHALS, king of the Wapplngers, float in an uncertain twilight which is scarcely relieved on the part of their

contemporaries, KAELCOP and SEWACKENAMO of the Minsis^ WYANDANCE, of the Montauks, and ORITANY of the Hackinsacks, by

the stirring scenes in which they were participants. definite rejlrds came to be

Even as late as 1710, when more

is no preservation of the lines of kings, nor is there positive identification of the Mahlcan and Iroquois sachems

written, there

who then visited England.

True, it

is

said that

HENDRIK of

the Mohawks, was one of the latter, and that ELOW-OH-KAOM,

of the Mahicans, left a daughter who became the wife of