Roger Williams wrote of the Narraganset Indians in 1643: "I have seen a native go into the woods with his hatchet, carrying a basket of corn with him, strike and sconestwoto metalic together strike astones, tire."' just Father Le do as we Junewith wrote, in 1634: a piece "They of flint and iron or steel. * * That is how they light their fire." The "Metalic stones" spoken of are presumed, by some writers, to have been iron pyrites, as they may have been in some cases, but the national emblem was the flint. '"Sankhicani, the Mohawk's, from Sankhican, a gun-lock." (Heckeweld- €r.) The name appears first on the Carte Figurative of 1614-16, in application to the Indians of northern New Jersey (Delawares), who were, by soine writers, called "The Fire-workers." They seem to have manufactured stone implements by the application of fire. Presumably they were "Fire-strikers" as well as the Mohawks. Certainly they were not Mohawks. Were the Mohawks the discoverers of the fire-striking properties of the flint?

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Mohawk country, hy Arent van 'Curler, in the winter of 1634-5, the names are Oiiekagoncka, Ganagere, Sohanidisse, and Tenotoge or Tenotogehooge. In 1643, Father Isaac Jogues, in French notation, wrote the name of the first, Osseruehon, and that of the last, Teononte-ogen. Rev.'Megapolensis, the Dutch minister at Fort Orange, wrote, in 1644, the name of the first Assarue, the second Baniglro, and the last Thenondiago. On a map republished in the Third Annual Report of the State Historian, copied from a map published in Holland in 1666, the first is called Caneray (Van der Donck's Carenay), and the second, Canagera.^ The several names refer in all cases to the same castles tribaUy, in some cases, apparently, by the name of a specific topographical feature near which the castles were located, and in some cases, apparently, by the name of the tribe.