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who had lost the greater part of their num- 

 ber by pestilence, to retire for protection 

 to the whites at Easthampton. Since 1 641 

 they had been tributary to New England. 

 When first known they were numerous, 

 and even after the pestilence of 1658-59, 

 were estimated at about 500. Then began 

 a rapid decline, and a century later only 

 162 remained, most of whom joined the 

 Brotherton Indians of New York, about 

 1788, so that in 1829 only about 30 were 

 left on Long Island, and 40 years later 

 these had dwindled to half a dozen indi- 

 viduals, who, with a few Shinnecock, 

 were the last representatives of the Long 

 Island tribes. They preserved a form of 

 tribal organization into the 19th century 

 and retained their hereditary chiefs until 

 the death of their last "king," David 

 Pharaoh, about 1875. A few mixed- 

 bloods are still officially recognized by 

 the state of New Y'ork as constituting a 

 tribe under Wyandanch Pharaoh, son of 

 David. (j. M. ) 



Mantacut.— Gardener (1660) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 3d s., in, 154, 1833. Mantaoke.— Deedof 1657 

 in Thompsdn, Long Id., 344, 1839. Mantauket. — 

 Gardener (1660) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Cull., 3d s., ni, 

 156,1833. Meantacut. — Ibid., 153. Meantaukett. — 

 Doc. of 1671 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 6ts, 

 1883. Meanticut, — Gardener (1660) as qnotod by 

 Drake, Bi£. Inds., bk. 2, 63, 1848. Melotaukes.— 

 Boudinot, Star in the West, 127, 1816 (misprint). 

 Menataukett, — Lovelace (1671) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hi.st., XIV, 652, 1883. Mentakett.— Deed (1661) in 

 Thonip.son, Long Id., i, 299, 1843 (place'). Men- 

 toake.— Deed of 1657, ibid., 344, 1839. Meontas- 

 kett,— Baily (1669) in R. I. Col. Rec, II, 276, 18.57. 

 Meontawket.— Clarke (1669), ibid., 285. Meun- 

 tacut.— Indian deed of 16 is cited by \V. W. Tooker, 

 inf'n, 1906. Mirrachtauhacky. — Doc. of 1645 in 

 N. Y. Doc. Ccl. Hist., xiv, 60, 1883 (said by Tooker, 

 Algong. Ser., ii, 15, 1901, to be a Dutch form of 

 Montauk). Montacut. — James (ca. 16.54) in ISIass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., vil, 482, 1865. Montake.— 

 Doc. of 1657 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hi.st., xiv, 416, 1883. 

 Montaks. — Vater, Mith., pt. 3, sec. 3, 339, 1816. 

 Montank. — Smithson. Miscel. Coll., XIV, art. 6, 25, 

 1878 (misprint) . Montauckett.— Doc. of 1675 in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., XIV, 700, 1883. Montaug.— Latham 

 in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond., .59, 1856. Montauk. — 

 Deed of 1666 in Thompson, Long Id., i, 312, 1843. 

 Montaukett.— Deed {ca. 1655), ibid., 183, 1839. 

 Montaukut.— Doc. of 1675 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 XIV, 699, 18S3. Montauque.— Doc. of 1669, ibid., 

 618. Montoake. — Doc. of 1657, ibid., 416. Mon- 

 tocks.— Tryon (1774), ibid., vill, 451, 1857. Mon- 

 tok. —Johnson (1777), ibid., 714. Montucks. — 

 Devotion (ca. 1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 1st s., X, 106, 1809. Mountacutt.— Deed of 1648 in 

 Thompson, Long Id., i, 294, 1843. Muntake,— Doc. 

 of 1677 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 729, 1883. 

 Muntauckett.— Doc. of 1675, ibid., 696. Muntau- 

 kett.— Doc. of 166.S, ibid., 606. 



Monterey Indians. The Costanoan In- 

 dians of Monterey co., Cal., numbering 

 more than 100 in 1856. A vocabulary 

 taken by Taylor (Cal. Farmer, Apr. 2(), 

 1860) at that time is Rumsen. There are 

 probably also remnants of the I'sselen 

 and other divisions of the Mutsun in the 

 region of Monterey. 



Montezuma, Carlos. An educated full- 

 blood A])ache, known among his peojile 

 in childhood as Wasajah ('Beckoning'), 

 born about 18()6 in the neighborhood of 

 the Four Peaks of the Mazatzal nits., pres- 



ent s. E. Arizona. In Oct., 1871, he was 

 taken captive, with 16 or 18 otlier chil- 

 dren including his two sisters, in a mid- 

 night raid by the Pima on his band, 

 during the absence of the men on a mis- 

 sion of peace, while encamped in the 

 Superstition mts., 40 or 50 m. w. of Globe. 

 In this raid 30 or more of the Apache 

 were killed. The captives were taken 

 by the Pima to their rancherias on the 

 Gila, whence, after a week's detention, 

 Wasajah was taken to Adamsville, below 

 Florence, and sold to Mr C. Gentile, a 

 native of Italy, who was then prospecting 

 in Arizona. Some months after the raid 

 Wasajah's mother, who had escaped, was 

 informed by an Indian runner that her 

 boy had been seen at Camp Date Creek. 

 Determined to recover her child, she ap- 

 plied to the agent for permission to leave 

 the reservation, and being refused de- 

 parted without leave. Her body w'as 

 found later in a rugged pass in the moun- 

 tains, where she had been shot by a 

 native scout. Wasajah was taken by Mr. 

 Gentile to Chicago and was called by him 

 Carlos INIontezuma — Carlos, from his own 

 name, Montezuma, from the so-called 

 Casa Montezuma (q. v.), near the Pima 

 villages. He entered the public schools 

 of Chicago in 1872, remaining until 1875, 

 from which time until 1884 his education 

 was continued in the public schools of 

 Galesburg, 111., Brooklyn, N. Y., and 

 Urbana, 111., and in the University of 

 Illinois at the last-named place. In 1884 

 he entered the Chicago Medical School, 

 from which he was graduated in 1889, 

 receiving in the same year an appoint- 

 ment as physician in the U. S. Indian 

 School at Stevenson, N. Dak. From 1890 

 until 1896 Dr Montezuma has served as 

 I^hysician successively* at the Western 

 Shoshone agency in Nevada, the Colville 

 agency in Washington, and at the Car- 

 lisle Indian School. In the latter year 

 he resigned from the service of the Indian 

 department and settled in C-hicago, where 

 he is now engaged in the practice of his 

 profession, in teaching in the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons and in the Post- 

 graduate Medical School, and in arous- 

 ing interest in his peoj^le through his 

 writings. 



Montezuma Castle. A prehistoric cliff- 

 dwelling on the right bank of Beaver cr., 

 a tri))utary of Rio Verde, 3 m. from old 

 Cam]) Verde, central Arizona; popularly 

 se-called because supposed to have been 

 once occupied by the Aztecs, whereas 

 there is no ground whatever for the belief 

 that any Southwestern pueblo or cliff- 

 village is of INIexican origin. Tlie build- 

 ing is constnu'ted in a natural recess 

 in the side of a limestone cliff, the base 

 of which is 348 ft from the edge of the 

 stream and about 40 ft al)ove it. The 



