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rough drafts of ^laps relating thereto, partly drawn with accur- 

 acy. And in deliberately considering how I can best reconcile 

 this one with the rough drafts Communicated, I find that the 

 places of the tribes of the Sennecas, Gachoos, Capitanasses, and 

 Jottecas, ought to be marked down considerably further west 

 into the Country. 



The map of 1616 is on a smaller scale and embraces part of 

 Canada. While retaining the main features of the other, the 

 lettering is by a different hand and there are slight changes in 

 the spelling. Lake Champlain is far to the east and is labeled 

 " Hcf Meer Vand Irocoisen." Its eastern shore is called Irocoisia, 

 a sufficient refutation of the story of Charlevoix. East of this is 

 the country of the Almouchicoisen in New England, showing 

 again an early use of this terminal by the Algonquins. The note 

 on French sloops and the ^lohawks is on this map. 



A petition, to which this chart was annexed, was read to the 

 officials of the States General Aug. 18, 1616, asking that they 

 would " be pleased to hear the aforesaid Cornells Hendrickxzen's 

 Report, and to examine the aforesaid Map and Discovery." The 

 discovery was of a bay and three rivers southwest of the mouth 

 of the Hudson. One item is of interest : " He also traded for, 

 and bought from the inhabitants, the Alinquaees, three persons, 

 being people belonging to this Company ; which three persons 

 were employed in the service of the Mohawks and Machicans ; 

 giving for them kettles, beads and merchandize." 



Champlain said the people of Carantouan took these three men 

 in war in 1614. They could safely trade on the Hudson with the 

 Mahicans, but, to trade w^ith the Mohawks, an inland journey 

 must be made. On one of these trading trips they were made 

 prisoners. Champlain said their captors returned them without 

 harm, thinking they were French. *' Otherwise these three pris- 

 oners would not have been suffered to get off so cheaply." 

 Through the Huron s the Susquehanna Indians had a good 

 opinion of the French. All were foes of the Iroquois. 



Connected with this early trade is the story of a Dutch and 

 Iroquois treaty at Tawasentha, or Normans kill, below Albany, 

 credited by many on very small proof. This was in the Mahican 



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