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branch of the Delaware. 4. The Wabinga, who are 

 sometimes called River Indians, sometimes IMohickan- 

 ders, and who had tlieir dwelling between the west 

 branch of Delaware and Hudson's river, from the Kit- 

 tatinney ridge down to the Karitnn : and 5. The Ma- 

 hiccon, or Mahattan, who occu|>ied Statan Island, York 

 Island (which from its being the i>rincii)al seat of their 

 residence was formerly called Manliatton) Long Island 

 and that part of New-York and Connecticut which lies 

 between Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the high- 

 land which is a continuation of the Kittatinney ridge 

 down to the sound. This nation had a close alliance 

 with the Shawanese, who lived on the Susquehanna 

 and to the westward of that river, as far as the Allegha- 

 ney mountains, and carried on a long war with another 

 powerful nation or confederacy of Indians, which hved 

 to the north of them between the Kittatinney moun- 

 tains, or highlands, and the lake Ontario, and who call 

 themselves Mingoes, and are called by the French writ- 

 ers Iroquois, by'the English the Five Nations, and by 

 the Indians to the southward, with whom they were at 

 war, JMassawomacs. This war was carrying on its 

 greatest fury, when cai)tain Smith first arrived in Vir- 

 ginia. The Mingo warriors had penetrated down the 

 Susquehannah to the mouth of it. In one of his excur- 

 sions u[) the bay, at the mouth of Susquehannah, in 

 1608, captain Smith met witli six or seven of their ca- 

 noes full of warriors, who were coming to attack their 

 enemies in the rear. In an excursion which he had 

 made a few weeks before up the Rappahannock, and in 

 which he had a skh'mish with a party of the Manaho- 

 acs, and taken a hrother of one of their chiefs prisoner, 

 he first heard of this nation. For when he asked I'le pri- 

 soner, why his nation attacked the English, the prisoner 

 said^ because his nation had heard that the English came 

 from under the world to take their world from them. 

 Being asked, how many worlds lie knew ? he said, he 

 knew but one, which was under the sky that covered 

 him, and which consisted of Powhatans, the 3Ianakins, 

 and the IMassawomacs. Being questioned concerning 



