known and

occupied lands, or a village and its This explanation accords with the name itself.

Wa, according to Schoolcraft,

is

a reflective plural and

may

mean be or they, or, by repetition, we ; x it has no descriptive A'mdau-yaun is my home Aindau-yun, significance whatever. his or her home or village. home town Aindau-aud, da, thy From these terms we have Wa-wa-yaun-da, signifying " our or " our and lands." of homes or ;

;

;

places

dwelling,"

village

Accepting the last, we find on the tract a Long house, situated on what is still called Long house creek, which was undoubt edly the seat or castle of the canton.

Substantives are generally combined

with inseparable possessive pronouns prefixed.

The

duplication nana^ vuaiua, wa-wall, distinguishes the double plural,

or combination of both

the

noun and

possessive

pronoun in the plural

fathers').

Zehberger's Grammar,

(<

our

APPENDIX.

The stream of water now known as the Tinbrook,

from

German Tinn Brock, or thin brook,

was called by the Indians Aratkhook, or Akhgook, the Delaware term for snake, the reference no doubt being to the extremely sinuous course of the

its flow, which resembles the contortions of a snake when thrown upon a fire. In 1701, Robert Sanders 1 filed a petition

for a patent to a tract of land described as " beginning at a fall

(/.

<?.,

a stream of water) called Arackbook

and running thence

northerly on the east side of the Paltz creek

until it

comes

to a