138 THE PASSENGER PiaEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



Indian Supervision of a Game Preserve — The Gar- 

 den of Manitto 



(By John C. French) 



The forests along the springs, brooks and rivulets 

 that constitute the Allegheny river sources, were a sort 

 of wild game preserve of the Seneca Indian nation, 

 from about 1600, when they began to occupy the re- 

 gion and had a principal town— Tununguam — ten miles 

 below Olean, New York, on the north bank of the 

 Allegheny, opposite the mouth of the Tuna Gwant 

 creek, which flows from the highlands near Mount Al- 

 ton, McKean County, Pennsylvania, past the city of 

 Bradford. The Kinzua creek rises near Alt. Alton 

 and flows westward about thirty miles to the river, 

 forty miles below the mouth of the Tuna Gwant. These 

 valleys were then a hunter's paradise, and the upper 

 Allegheny was Alanitto's garden. 



The Rev. Dr. Geo. P. Donehoo, the historian, spoke 

 at Coudersport, in October, 1916, at the dedication of 

 a boulder to commemorate the trip of David Zeisberg- 

 er, Moravian Missionary, through Potter county in 

 1767, at which time he camped near the river at Coud- 

 ersport, on October 8, 1767, and continued his jour- 

 ney, down the Allegheny, being the first white man 

 permitted to penetrate and pass through that region, 

 telling at length how strictly Indian sentinals guarded 

 every trail that led into the sacred breeding ground 

 they protected from trespassers and desecration. That 

 C. F. Post and his Indian guide, in 1760, had sought 

 permission to pass from the Cowanesque river to the 



