jack, Satach, Siattege, Tiochte, Ojeri.^

The names of tlieir months are these : -- Cuerano, the first with them, February: 2. Weer-hemska : S. Heemskan: 4. Oneratacka: 5. Oneratack, then men begin to sow and to plant : 6. Hagarert: 7. lakouvaratta : 8. Hatterhojiagat : 9. Genhendasfa : then the grain and every thing is ripe. 10. Digojenjattha, then is the seed housed. Of January and December they take no note being of no use to tliem.

1 Delaware Bay. 2 The author of this paper must have obtained his informa lion from some Iroquois, as with the exception of the first, these are the names of the numerals accordin?- to ^)a» M' -lawk and Onondaga dialects. The last (Oiei-'i) approaches the Se -

YOL. III. i

34- FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

A ship was fitted out under a commission from tlie West What those India Company, and freighted with families, to plant a coion^ieT' Colony among this People. But to go in safety, it is have to do. f^j,g^ ^|. ^Y^ necessary that they be placed in a good defensive position and well provided with arms and a fort, as the Spaniard who claims all the country, will never allow any one to gain a possession there ; and as the Spaniards have made many incursions as well above as below, in Florida, Virginia and thereabouts, I deem it not foreign to tell something thereof, being a mirror in which every one can see and defend himself, and liow the Spaniards always aim as well generally as individually at Monarchy. Such description shall be related in the commencement of Part the Seventh, as this Book cannot contam it.