and it fire, shared the kindness of these Christian white people, I am a withered, leafless, me down if you will I am ready/ A Naoman descended yell of indignation sounded on all sides.

was I that told them of their danger.

branchless trunk ; cut

from the

little

;

bank where he

sat,

mantle of skins and submitted to his

shrouded fate.

his face with his

He fell dead at the

feet of the white woman by a blow of the tomahawk.

" But the

sacrifice

of

Naoman, and the

firmness of

the

Christian white woman, did not suffice to save the lives of the

They perished how, it is needless to say ; and the memory of their fate has been preserved in the name of the other victims.

pleasant stream, on whose banks they lived and died, which, to this day, is called the

Murderer's creek."

Six miles west of the scene of this tradition is the mountain

range called Sckunemunk, or, as in the early deeds, Skonnemoghky, on the northern spur of which, and near its base was the castle or village of the clan to whom it refers, and where they con settlements had been

tinued to reside until after considerable

The name is also spelled Skonanoky^ and from derived Shunna, sour, and na excellent, nuk^ apparently local probably referring to the abundance of wild grapes made around them.

is

On the east side of the mountain, in the town of near the centre of the Wilson patent, was an and Cornwall, Indian burial grond, so .designated in a survey by General James found there.