food and mode of preparation, 24; go vernment and laws, 29 ; medicines,

27 ; occupation, 24 ; organization of armies, 31; plurality of wives, 22;

punishment for murder, 33 ; religious and worship, 27 ; rank and

belief titles,

30 ;

title to

lands, 30 ;

wam

pum, 26; war, preparation for, 31

INDEX.

4lO Manners and customs, continued

war song of Lenapes, 32; weapons of war, 25 Van der Donck's description o: appearance, 20 ; Verazzano's de war

address, 31 ;

scription of appearance, 19

Maquas, Mohawks so called, 35;

castle

of the Praying, 97 Maringoman, sachem of Waoranecks, 94; castle of,

Marsapequas, location of the, 73 ; take part in war of 1643, 73 ; aid the Dutch in Esopus wars, 73, 149, 153 Maramaking, sachem of Si wanoys, 82 Massachusetts, sends war belt to Mahicans, 269 5 reply of, to Mahican ad

Matinecocks, location of the, 74 of Raritans, 90 sachem Mattano, Mauwehu, sachem of Schaticooks dress,

of

Minsis, continued noes settle among, 1815 devastate western Orange and Ulster, 221 ;

murder

settlers

from Canastota to

Esopus, 231 j hostilities of, in Minnisink country, 238 ; paid for lands in

New Jersey, 241

Mississagies, accepted as the seventh na tion of the Iroquois confederacy, 199;

alliance of, with Iroquois broken, 200 Mitchill, Dr. theory of, 16 Mohawks, a tribe of the Five Nations,

36} territory of, 96; villages and castles of, 97 j totems of, 49 ; mode of declaring war, 31 j conversion of, by Jesuits, 56; obtain fire-arms, 66, 100 j at war with the Hurons, 53 ; first treaty with the Dutch, 545 wars with the Mahicans, 57, 61 j drive the Soquatucks from their land,