376 PRINCE. 



EXPLANATORY NOTES. 



* Wabanaki means ''inhabitants of the East or dawn country" 

 from waban "daybreak" and aki " land, territory." The latter is 

 a suffix used in composition for 'Mand, region" (see Brinton, The 

 Lenape and their Legends, p. 191). 



^ Norridgewock or Norridgewalk is on the Kennebec and not as 

 Gatschet states on the middle Penobscot {^Nat. Geogr. Mag., VIII, 

 p. 23). Its original name was Nanrantsoiiack, which may have 

 meant "stretch of still water," although this is not certain. The 

 settlement was the home of the nucleus of the present St. Francis 

 clan, w^here Father Rasle, the author of the Abnaki dictionary, first 

 established himself in 1689 (see Pickering's edition of Rasle's work 

 in Amer. Acad. Set. and Aits Mem., New series, 1833, Vol. I, p. 

 37.2). The tradition of the present Abnakis of Canada asserts that 

 their ancestors came from Maine and New Hampshire. 



^ The Indian form of the name Passamaquoddy is Peskaturnagatiek 

 " those belonging to the place abounding in pollock-fish' ' {peskatin?i) ; 

 cf. Gatschet, /. c, p. 23. 



* See Prince, Froc. Amer. Fliilos. Soc, XXXI, p. 480. 



^The real Mohawks called themselves Caniengas. When first 

 known they were living on the south side of the Mohawk river be- 

 tween Canajoharie and Schoharie creeks in New York Province. 

 Being loyalists, they removed to Canada with Brant at the time of 

 the American Revolution (Hale, the Iroquois Book of Rites, p. 

 34). It is probable that Mitchell means here by Mohawks (^Alcgiiyik) 

 not only the Canie?igas, but also the Canadian Iroquois. The whole 

 Iroquois race is called in the St. Francis language Magna, and indeed 

 the term Mohawk which is a corruption of the word Magna was used 

 in England in much the same way. 



* Originally Five Nations, e. g., Onondagas, Mohawks, Oneidas, 

 Senecas and Cayugas who called themselves in the Iroquoian dialect 

 Hothionsionni (Prince, /. c, p. 438). The Tuscaroras came into 

 the league later. The Iroquoian name for the completed federation 

 -vi2& Kaiwnsion?u " the league of the united households" (Hale, /. c, 

 pp. 10, 171). 



'The original form of the name Penobscot is Pa?iaivampskik (St. 

 Francis Panapskak~) "where the steep rocks are." 



