The record reads : " Where a few Rockaway Indians from Long Island, with their chief, Niande Nummcrus, had built their wigwams." (Brodhead.) "And a party of freemen behind Corlear's plantation, on the Manhattans, who slew a large number and afterwards burned their huts." The name of the Chief, Niande Nniiniicrus, is corrupted from the Latin Nicanda Numericus, the name of a Roman gens- De Vries wrote, " Hummerus, a Rockaway chief, who I knew."

i * See Rechqua-hackie. " The old Harlem creek, on Manhattan Island, was called Rechawanes, or ' Small, sandy river.' " (Gerard.)

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" Sand gravel "' -- a " sandy place." It was a sandy point with a beach, entered, on English maps, " Crown Point." Warpoes is given as the name of "a small hill " on the east side and " near ye fresh water " lake or pond called the Kolk (Dutch " p'it-hole "), which occupied several acres in the neighborhood of Centre Street.^ The Indian name is that of the narrow pass between the hill and the pond, wdiich it described as " small " or narrow. (See Raphoos.) In the absence of record names, the late Dr. Schoolcraft conferred, on several points, terms from the Ojibwe or Chippeway, which may be repeated as descriptive merely. A hill at the corner of Charlton and Varick streets was called by him IsJipatiiiau, "A bad hill." ^ A ridge or cliff north of Beekman Street, was called Ishibic, " A bad rock ;" the high land on Broadway, Acitoc ; a rock rising up in the Battery. Abie, and Mount Washington, Penabic, " The comb mountain." The descriptions are presumably correct, but the features no longer exist.