1 " * * We have, therefore, gathered information from the Mahicanders, who thought we knew of it, that more than fifteen days ago some Esopus [Indians] had been at Keessienwey's Hoeck who wanted to come up [to Fort Orange], but had been prevented until this time, and in order to get at the truth of the matter, we have concluded to send for two or three sachems of the Katskil Indians, especially Macsachneminanau and Safpagood, also Keesienwey, to come hither." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 309.) * "May 24, 1660. To-day appeared [at Fort Orange] three Mahican chiefs, namely, Eskuvius, alias Aepjen (Little Ape), Aupaumut. and Keessienway, alias Teunis, who answered that they came in the name of the Esopus sachems to ask for peace."

176 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Vlugt Hoek, "Flying corner," it is so entered in deed. Qr. "Flying," fishing with a hook in the form of a fly. Koghkehaeje, Kachhachinge, Coghsacky, now Goxsackie, a very early place name where it is still retained, was translated by Dr. Schoolcraft from Kuxakee (Chip.), "The place of the cut banks," and by Dr. O'Callaghan, "A corruption of Algonquin Kaakaki, from Kaak, 'goose,' and -aki, 'place.' " In his translation of the Journal of Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, in which the name is written Koch-ackie ( German notation ; Dutch, Kok, "000k"), the late Hon. Henry C. Murphy wrote: "The true orthography isprobably Koek's-rackie (the Cook's Little Reach), to distinguish itfrom the Koek's Reach below the Highlands, near New York." Unfortunately there is no evidence that there was a reach called the Cook's north of the Highlands, while it is certain that the name is Algonquian. Dankers and Sluyter gave no description of the place in 1679-80, but their notice of it indicates that it was familiar at that date.