If, as would seem most likely, its occupants were those with whom Minuit made his bargain in 1622, supposedly for the entire island, the sale of their home-site resulted in their entire evacuation of the place after that event. Doubtless these natives were those Manhattan Indians who were afterward found to be settled at Nayack, or Fort Hamilton (68), where they resided for twenty-five years, when they consented again to remove and transferred their home to Staten Island and in part to the Hackensack region. And it is significant that in Brooklyn another locality was found to bear the same native name of Werpos (67), to which perhaps some of

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their neighbors may have transferred the name of their prior home. A close relation evidently existed between these Manhattan natives and those who dwelt in Brooklyn.

The southern extremity of the Island of Manhattan was known to the natives as Kapsee, which name was applied to the rocky upland and also to the rock islets off its shore. The extreme end of this tract, which was later named "Schreyers Hoek," was a point extending south of Pearl street and Whitehall street, bounded on its shore-line by our present State street, the curved portion of which has preserved for our observation the outline of the ancient promontory.

This point formed on its east side a small cove, somewhat protected from the tides that swirled around the end of the island. It lay in the angle of Pearl and Whitehall streets, the name of the former probably preserving the appearance of the shellstrewn beach along which the thoroughfare was laid out in 1633. That such a desirable landing place was utilized by