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never returned."* The country was divided according to the stipulation ; the 

 Iroquois making choice of the lands near the great lakes and their tributary 

 streams, w^hile the Lenape occupied the region to the south. When the European 

 colonies arrived, the Dela wares were the possessors of the southern portion of New 

 Jersey, and parts of the present states of Pennsylvania and Delaware. They 

 received the strangers with confidence and kindness, and for many years this 

 mutual good faith remained unbroken. The Delawares were less warlike than 

 the Iroquois, to whom they finally became in a manner subservient. " In person 

 they were upright, and straight in their limbs, beyond the usual proportion in 

 most nations : their bodies were strong, but of a strength rather fitted to endure 

 hardship than to sustain much bodily labor ; their features were regular ; their 

 countenances sometimes fierce, in common rather resembling a Jew than a 

 Christian,"t 



PLATE XXXIV. 



LENAPE, OR DELAWARE. 



The few Delaware skulls in my possession are more elongated than is usual 

 in the American tribes; they are also narrower in proportion in the parietal 

 diameter, and less flattened on the occiput. The annexed drawing is taken from 

 a skull presented by Dr. Pitcher, U. S. A., who accompanied it with the following 

 memorandum : '^I know this to be genuine. The country at present assigned to 

 the Delawares lies north of the Kanzas, between it and the Missouri river. There 

 are some wandering bands of these proud foresters in the Cherokee country, on 

 the Neosho and Canadian rivers, in Arkansas, The individual whose cranium I 



** Heckewelder, Historical Account, &c., p. 3L t Smith, Hist, of New Jersey, p. 242. 



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