Governor's Island was sold in the same year by the Tappans, Hackinsacks and Nyacks, the grantors signing themselves as " hereditary owners." Later deeds were signed by chiefs of the Raritans and Hackinsacks. ^The Objibwe (Objibwai) were a nation of three tribes living northwest of the great lakes, of which the Ojibwai or Chippeway represented the Eagle totem. It is claimed by some writers that their language stands at the head of the Algonquian tongues. This claim is disputed on behalf of the Cree. the Shawanoe, and the Lenape or Delaware. It is not assumed that Ojibwe (Chippeway) terms are not Algonquian, but that they do not strictly belong to the dialects of the Hudson's river families. Rev. Heckewelder saw no particular difference between the Ojibwe and the Lenape except in the French and the English forms. Ojibwe terms may always be quoted in explanations of the Lenape.

l6 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

known as Ward's Island.' It appears in deed of 1636-7. It means "Small island," from Tenke (Len.), "little." Monatun was conferred by Dr. Schoolcraft on the whirlpool off Hallet's Cove, with the explanation, " A word conveying in its multiplied forms the various meanings of violent, forcible, dangerous, etc." Dr. Schoolcraft introduced the word as the derivative of Manhatan, Which, however, is very far from being explained by it. Hell-gate, a vulgar orthography of Dutch Hellegat, has long been the popular name of the place. It was conferred by Adriaen Block, in 1614-16, to tlie dangerous strait known as the East River, from a strait in Zealand, which, presumably, was so called from Greek Hellc, as heard in Hellespont -- " Sea of Helle " -- now known as the Dardanelles -- vi^hich received its Greek name from Helle, daugliter of Athamas, King of Thebes, who, the fable tells us, was diT'^-^f-d in passing ovtv it.