This name is recorded in the deed of 28 September, 1669, as "the hook called Saperewack." The winding waterway from the head of kill Muscoota, at 225th street, was known as Paparinemin or Papirinemin, a name applied also to the island of Kingsbridge which bounded the stream on its northerly side, and which seems to be derived from the Delaware papallenumen, "to continually make a false start," which would indicate to the native mind the special peculiarity of the tides of this locality, according to Mr Harrington. The limits within which the name seems to have been applied were from the head of Harlem river around Marble hill, as far west as the sharp bend in

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INDIAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN A GRAVE AT SHORAKAPKOK. (STATION 16, MAP V) An arrowpoint was found in one of the woman's ribs, indicating a violent death. Photograph by W. L. Calver, 1908

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The Wading place is described as having been a short distance east of the original

-- Fig. 1. Skull of an ancient denizen of Shorakapkok, disinterred on Seaman avenue near 204th street, Manhattan (Station 15, Map V).

Kingsbridge, which in turn was east of the more recent bridge, now buried under Kingsbridge avenue (see Map VI). Stephen Jenkins, in his Story of the Bronx, places the situation of the Wading place, with much probability of accuracy, under our present Broadway, at the disused

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