It has been claimed that the landing which Hudson made and so particularly described in Juet's Journal, w^as at Schodac.''^ The Journal relates that the "Master's mate" first "went on land with an old savage, the governor of the country, who carried him to his house and made him good oheere." The next day Hudson himself "Sailed to the shore, in one of their can'oe'S, with an old man who was chief of a tribe consisting of forty men and seventeen women," and it is added, "These I saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof." Presumably the house was near the shore of the river and in occupation during the fishing and planting season. The winter castle

Dutch Apeje's (Little Ape's) Island." He may have been given that name from his personal appearance, or it may have been a substitute for a name which the Dutch had heard spoken. EHot wrote, "Appu. He sits ; he rests, remains, abides ; Ken Apean, Those that sittest," descriptive of the rank of a resident ruler or peace chief, one of a class of sachems whose business it was to maintain the covenants between his own and other tribes, and negotiate treaties of peace on their behalf or for other tribes when called upon. From his totemic signature he was of the Wolf tribe of the Mahicans. (See Keessienway's Hoeck.) ^ The prefixed M, sometimes followed by a short vowel or an apostrophe (M'), has no definite or determinate force. (Trumbull.) 'The Journal locates the place at Lat. 42 deg. 18 min. This would be about five miles (statute) north of the present city of Hudson. " But," wrote Brodhead, ' Latitudes were not as easily determined in those days as they are now ; and a careful computation of the distances run by the Half-Moon, as recorded in Juet's day-book, shows that on the i8th of September, 1609, when the landing occurred, she must have been ' up six leagues higher ' than Hudson, in the neighborhood of Schodac and Castleton."