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the condition that they should put themselves under 

 the protection of the IMingoes, confine themselves to 

 raising corn, hunting for the suhsistence of their fami- 

 lies, and no longer have the power of making war. This 

 is what the Indians call making them women. And in 

 this condition the Lenopis were wlien William Penn 

 first arrived and began the settlement of Pennsylvania 

 in 1682. 



(6.) p. 106. From the figurative language of the In- 

 dians, as well as from the practice of those we are still 

 acquainted with, it is evident that it was and still con- 

 tinues to be, a constant custom among the Indians to 

 gather up the bones of the dead, and deposite them in a 

 particular place. Thus, wiien they makepeace with 

 any nation with whom they have been at war, after 

 burying the hatchet, they take up the belt of wam})um, 

 and say, " We now gather up all the bones of those 

 who have been slain, and bury them, «S,:c." See all the 

 treaties of peace. Besides, it is customary when any 

 of them die at a distance from home, to bury them, and 

 afterwards to come and take up the bones and carry 

 them home. At a treaty which was held at Lancaster 

 with the Six Nations, one of them died, and was buried 

 in the woods a little distance from the town. Some 

 time after a party came and took up the bod}-, separat- 

 ed the flesh from the bones by boiling and scraping them 

 clean, and carried them to be deposited in the sepul- 

 chres of their ancestors. The operation was so offen- 

 sive and disagreeable, that nobodv could come near 

 them while the}'' were performing it. 



(7.) p. 110. The Oswegatchies, Connosedagoes and 

 Cohunnegagoes, or as they are commonly called, Cagh- 

 newagos, are of the IMingo or Six Nation Indians, who 

 by the influence of the French missionaries, have been 

 se[)arated from their nation, and induced to settle there. 



I do not know^of what nation the Augquaghahs are ; 

 but suspect they are a family of the Senecas. 



The Nanticocks and Conoies were formerly of a na- 

 tion that lived at the head of Chesapeake bay, and who, 

 .of late years, have been adopted into the Mingo or Iro- 



