man dragged him knife to stab him, and for his was from horse, searching he out a pocket drew French's hand, when, loosening luckily in situation the the Indian which and shot head, through pistol, struck at an Indian, but missed him ; the his

One man of the Legion Cavalry was he was found. and two of the Hussars, wounded." them and one of

killed,

The battlements of the Hudson, " The mountain columns With which earth props heaven," the early home of the patriot chief, are the monuments to his memory ; the eternal flow of the Mahicanituk his requiem.

APPENDIX.

II.

LANGUAGE.

jHE early Dutch writers resolved the various dialects which they met among the Indians into " four dis

tinct

languages,

namely

Savanos, and Wappanoos"

:

Manhattan,

Minqua,

With the Manhattan

they included the dialect spoken in the neighborhood of Fort Amsterdam, "along the North river, on Long island, and at the Neversink ; with the Minqua, the Senecas and other inland

The Savanos was the dialect of the south, and the The progress of the inquiry Wappanoos that of the east.

tribes."

this classification was slow. Wassanaar writes, "'Tis worthy of remark, that so great a diversity of language exists among the numerous tribes. They vary fre not over five or miles forthwith comes another six quently in

resulting in

:

;

language ; they meet and can hardly understand one another.

There are some who come sixty miles from the interior, and cannot well understand those on the river."