Schoolcraft and Trumbull to be derived from Maingan (Cree Maheggun), " Wolf " -- " an enchanted wolf, or a wolf of supernatural powers." From their prevailing totem or prevailing coat-of-arms, the Wolf, the French called them Loups, " wolves," and also Manhingans, including under the names " The nine nations gathered between Manhattan and Quebec." While the name is generic its application to Hudson's River was probably confined to the vicinity of Albany, where Chief Aupaumut located their ancient capital under the name of Pem-po-tow-wut-hut Muh-hea-kan-neiiw, " The fire-place of the Muh-hea-kan-nuk nation."^ The Dutch found them on both sides of the river north of Catskill, with extended northern and eastern alliances, and south of that point, on the east side of the river, in alliance with a tribe known as Wappans or Wappings, Wappani, or " East-side people," the two nations forming the Mahikan nation of Hudson's River as known in history. (See Wahamensing.)

' Presumed to have been at what is now known as Sclicdac, which see.

12 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Father Jogues, the French-Jesuit martyr-missionary, wrote in 1646, Oi-o-gue as the Huron-Iroquoian name of the river, given to him at Sarachtoga, with the connection " At the river." " Ohioge, river ; Ohiogc-son, at the long river," wrote Bruyas. Arent van Curler wrote the same name, in 1634, Vyoge, and gave it as that of die Mohawk River, correcting the orthography, in his vocabulary, to " Oyoghi, a kill " or channel. It is an Iroquoian generic applicable to any principal stream or current river, with the ancient related meaning of '" beautiful river." It is said that the Mohawks called the river Cohohataton. I have not met that name in records. It was quoted by Dr. Schoolcraft as traditional, and of course doubtful. He wrote it Kohatatea, and in another connection wrote " -atea, a valley or landscape." It is suspected that he coined the name, as he did many others.