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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  (Bruyas], 
  to 
  cause 
  to 
  depart, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  a 
  fresh 
  start, 
  or 
  from 
  

   attona, 
  stairs, 
  from 
  the 
  ascent. 
  

  

  Ca-na-da'-way 
  creek 
  or 
  Ga-na-da-wa-o, 
  running 
  through 
  the 
  

   hemlocks. 
  Canadawa 
  creek 
  and 
  Dunkirk. 
  Spafford 
  mentioned 
  a 
  

   portage 
  there. 
  Johnson 
  called 
  it 
  Kanandaweron 
  when 
  he 
  stopped 
  

   there 
  in 
  1761. 
  

  

  Cat-ta-rau'-gus 
  creek 
  and 
  Little 
  Cattaraugus, 
  fetid 
  banks. 
  

  

  Ca-yant'-ha, 
  corn 
  fields, 
  one 
  of 
  Cornplanter's 
  towns, 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  

   Conewango 
  in 
  1787, 
  a 
  mile 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  195th 
  milepost 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  

   Delaware 
  river. 
  Cayontona 
  and 
  Kiantone 
  seem 
  derived 
  from 
  this. 
  

  

  Chaut-au'-qua 
  lake, 
  creek 
  and 
  town. 
  The 
  place 
  now 
  called 
  Port- 
  

   land 
  had 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Chatacouit 
  in 
  French 
  documents 
  in 
  1753- 
  

   The 
  word 
  has 
  become 
  widely 
  known 
  among 
  summer 
  schools, 
  and 
  

   has 
  been 
  very 
  differently 
  interpreted. 
  For 
  these 
  reasons 
  some 
  space 
  

   will 
  be 
  given 
  to 
  it. 
  

  

  L. 
  H. 
  Morgan 
  wrote 
  it 
  Cha-da'-gweh 
  in 
  Seneca, 
  Cha-da'-qua 
  in 
  

   Onondaga 
  and 
  Cayuga, 
  Cha-ta'-qua 
  in 
  Tuscarora, 
  and 
  Ja-da-qua 
  

   in 
  Mohawk 
  ; 
  a 
  as 
  in 
  far. 
  He 
  interpreted 
  it, 
  place 
  where 
  one 
  zvas 
  

   lost, 
  and 
  his 
  informant 
  was 
  a 
  Seneca 
  chief. 
  Cornplanter 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  

   have 
  told 
  Judge 
  Prendergast, 
  that 
  " 
  Chautauqua 
  ( 
  Ja-da-queh) 
  sig- 
  

   nified 
  where 
  a 
  body 
  ascended 
  or 
  was 
  taken 
  up. 
  The 
  Seneca 
  tra- 
  

   dition 
  is 
  that 
  a 
  hunting 
  party 
  of 
  Indians 
  was 
  once 
  encamped 
  on 
  the 
  

   shore 
  of 
  the 
  lake. 
  A 
  young 
  squaw 
  of 
  the 
  party 
  dug 
  up 
  and 
  ate 
  a 
  

   root 
  that 
  created 
  thirst, 
  to 
  slake 
  which 
  she 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  lake 
  and 
  

   disappeared 
  forever. 
  Thence 
  it 
  was 
  inferred 
  that 
  a 
  root 
  grew 
  

   there 
  which 
  produced 
  an 
  easy 
  death 
  ; 
  a 
  vanishing 
  from 
  the 
  afflic- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  life." 
  This 
  may 
  be 
  easily 
  reconciled 
  with 
  Morgan's 
  defini- 
  

   tion. 
  The 
  account 
  goes 
  on 
  that 
  Cornplanter 
  alluded 
  to 
  this 
  in 
  

   speaking 
  against 
  Phelps 
  and 
  Gorham 
  : 
  

  

  Another, 
  who 
  will 
  not 
  think 
  of 
  dying 
  by 
  the 
  hand 
  of 
  his 
  father 
  or 
  

   brother, 
  says 
  he 
  will 
  return 
  to 
  Jadaqueh, 
  eat 
  of 
  the 
  fatal 
  root, 
  and 
  

   sleep 
  with 
  his 
  fathers 
  in 
  peace. 
  Hazeltine, 
  p. 
  41-42 
  

  

  Other 
  proposed 
  meanings 
  are 
  place 
  where 
  a 
  child 
  zvas 
  swept 
  

   away 
  by 
  the 
  waves, 
  and 
  bag 
  tied 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  

   form 
  of 
  the 
  lake. 
  These 
  may 
  be 
  dismissed. 
  Spafford's 
  definition 
  

   has 
  this 
  in 
  its 
  favor, 
  that 
  in 
  early 
  Mohawk 
  the 
  word 
  for 
  fog 
  was 
  

   otsata. 
  He 
  sajd: 
  

  

  