gathered and disposed around them for that purpose, as though The they themselves had encamped by their fires as usual.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Mahicans following on, landed upon the Island in the depth of Sup night, and were completely taken in by the deception. posing that the Mohawks were sleeping soundly beneath their blankets, after their fatigue, the Mahicans crept up with the silence, and pouring a heavy fire upon the blankets, rushed upon them with knives and tomahawks in hand, making

greatest

the air to ring with their yells as they fell to cutting and slash ing the blankets and bushes instead of Indians beneath them.

Just at the moment of their greatest confusion and exultation, the Mohawks, who had been lying in ambush flat upon the

ground

at a little

distance, poured a murderous fire

upon their

foes, whose figures were rendered distinctly visible by the light

and rushing impetuously upon them, killed the and made prisoners of the residue. A treaty was greater, part then concluded, by which the Mohawks, were to have the king of their

fires,

and the Mahicans were to hold them

them Uncle.

Hendrik was the king

in reverence, first

and

call

named such by

" who lived to a the Mohawks, after this decisive victory, great " and was killed at the battle of Lake George age," says Brown, under Sir William Johnson."

The boundary line of the Coeymans tract began at a point on the

"

west shore of the Hudson called