While living, he often encouraged his people to adopt the way of living by agriculture, and finally become civil His ideas were, that unless the Indians changed their

ized.

mode of living they would in time dwindle to nothing."

APPENDIX.

Captain WHITE EYES, or Coquehageahton^ distinguished for friendship for the Americans in the early stages of the

his

was the successor of Netawatwees, but held the government only two years. On his death, in 1778, a regency revolution,

took the direction during the minority of the lineal heir to the On the death of the latter, in 1781, GELELEMAND,

throne. alias

Killbuck, became king by election.

One of the earliest chiers of the Skawanoes, of whom record has been preserved, was PAXINOS or Paxinosa, who came to theMinnisink country in 1692, and who appears, in the records of New York, as chief of the Minnisinks. He subsequently fell back with his people to the Delaware country, and next appears in the difficulties which grew out of the removal of the Lenapes to

Wyoming. latter place,

With a desire to strengthen themselves at the " Teedyuscung and PAXINOS visited the believing

Indians" at Gnadenhiitten, in 1752, and desired them to remove to the lands which

the Six Nations

they had selected, repeating as the order of

u :

They (the

Iroquois)

rejoice

that

some of

the believing Indians have removed to Wyoming ; but now lift the Mahicam and Delaware* and settle up they remaining

them down in Wyoming, for there a fire is kindled for them, and there they may plant and think on God." About eighty of the converts accompanied the parties to Wyoming, but the remainder refused to do so, under the advice of the missionaries. In the spring of 1754, PAXINOS again appeared in the settle ment, accompanied by twenty-three warriors and three Iroquois embassadors, and added to the order already quoted, that if the " the great head (the Iroquois) would