amongst all kind of salvages, there hee is at their Revels (which is the time when a greate company of salvages meete from several parts of the country, in amity with their neighbors), tion

hath advanced his honor in his feats or jugling tricks (as I may right tearme them], to the admiration of the spectators, whom

hee endeavored to perswade that hee would goe under water to the further side of a river to broade for any man to undertake

with a breath, which thing hee performed by swiming over and deluding the company with casting a mist before their eyes that see him enter in and come out ; but no part of the way he has bin scene ; likewise by our English in the heat of all summer, to make ice appear in a bowle of faire water, first having the

water set before him, hee hath begunne his incantation accord-

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

ing to their usual custom, and before the same hath bin ended, a thick cloude has darkened the aire, on a sodane a thunderclap

hath bin heard that has amazed the natives ;

in

an instant hee

hath showed a firme peece of ice to flote in the middest of the

bowle

in

the presence of the

vulgar people, which doubtless

was done by the agility of Satan his consort." But he was something more than a juggler his ability as a Gookin wrote of him warrior and as a ruler is acknowledged. " He lived to a in 1675 very great age, as I saw him alive at ;