210 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 191 



(ibid., vol. 44, p. 153). The French Jesuit De Lamberville, writing 

 from the Seneca country in 1682, reported that another surrender 

 took place about 1672, in which 



Six hundred men, women, and children of the nation of the chats, near Virginia, 

 surrendered vokmtarily, for fear that they might be compelled to do so by force. 

 [De Lamberville, 1682; in ibid., vol. 62, p. 71.] 



A similar statement, apparently referring to an event which occurred 

 about 1680, was made to the Governor of Maryland in 1681 by an 

 Onondaga and a Cayuga. 



Another Nation, called the Black Mingoes, are joined with the Sinnondowannes, 

 who are the right Senecas ; that they were so informed by some New York Indians 

 whom they met as they were coming down. They told them that the Black 

 Mingoes, in the coming to the Sinniquos, were pursed by some Southern Indians, 

 set upon and routed, several of them taken and bound, till the Sinniquos came 

 unto their relief. [Hanna, 1911, p. 16.] 



One additional type of evidence which may be cited in support of 

 the proposition that the Erie were one and the same with the Black 

 Minqua is the fact that, while the historical sources indicate that 

 both of these groups were "destro3:^ed" by the Iroquois, the Iroquois 

 themselves claimed only to have destroyed the Erie in this general 

 area at this time. This argument rests, of course, on the assumption 

 that if the Black Minqua had not been identical with the Erie the 

 Iroquois would have made the fact clear. One thing is indisputable: 

 the Iroquois, and particularly the Seneca, were never particularly 

 modest in their claims of martial prowess and triumphs. 



6. ARRIGAHAGA-ERIE CONNECTION 



Evidence for the identity of the Arrigahaga, mentioned by Printz, 

 with the Erie is largely linguistic. The material already considered 

 indicates that the name "Arrigahaga" is used in such a context that 

 its synonymy with the name "Black Minqua" is indicated strongly; 

 the possible identity of the Black Minqua with the Erie has also been 

 discussed. Above and beyond this it can be argued that the term 

 "Arrigahaga" is a cognate of the term "Erie," having an Iroquoian 

 stem meaning "people of" (Hodge, 1907, pt. 1, p. 921). 



The evidence for this derives, first of all, from Lewis Evans' use of 

 the form "Eriga" as a variant for "Erie" in the commentary published 

 in connection with his map of 1755. The second line of evidence de- 

 rives from the known use of the ending "-haga," as well as cognate 

 forms, in known Iroquois tribal names (Hodge, 1907, pt. 1, pp. 224, 

 924; 1910, pt. 2, pp. 87, 507-508): 



Aniakahaka-Caughnawaga name for Mohawk 

 Kaniengehaga-Mohawk name for Mohawk 

 Kuyukuhaga-Mohawk, for Cayuga 



