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  MEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  frequently 
  seen 
  the 
  Indian 
  and 
  havp 
  heard 
  him 
  relate 
  the 
  

   perilous 
  occurrence 
  or 
  adventure. 
  

  

  This 
  agrees 
  with 
  the 
  definitions 
  of 
  Spaftord 
  and 
  Morgan. 
  Zeis- 
  

   berger 
  gives 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  word 
  gahuwa 
  for 
  canoe, 
  and 
  School- 
  

   craft's 
  Mohawk 
  vocabulary 
  kahoweya 
  is 
  a 
  boat. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand 
  

   Ruttenber 
  said 
  Cohoes 
  was 
  not 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  falls, 
  but 
  of 
  an 
  

   island 
  below, 
  and 
  he 
  connected 
  this 
  with 
  the 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  of 
  

   the 
  Coos 
  country 
  in 
  New 
  Hampshire, 
  referring 
  to 
  pines. 
  Masten's 
  

   History 
  of 
  Cohoes 
  also 
  quotes 
  a 
  statement 
  from 
  the 
  Schenectady 
  

   Reflector 
  of 
  1857, 
  that 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  Mohegan, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  Canadian 
  

   Indians 
  still 
  call 
  pitchholes 
  in 
  the 
  road 
  cahoos. 
  The 
  Mohawk 
  defi- 
  

   nition 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  preferred. 
  

  

  Ga-isch-ti-nic 
  or 
  Kaishtinic 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Albany, 
  according 
  

   to 
  Schoolcraft, 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  lower 
  river 
  Indians. 
  It 
  may 
  have 
  come 
  

   from 
  Kish-ke-tik, 
  by 
  the 
  river 
  side, 
  but 
  there 
  seems 
  no 
  reference 
  

   in 
  the 
  word 
  to 
  door, 
  capitol, 
  or 
  council 
  fire, 
  as 
  implied 
  in 
  the 
  

   following 
  story, 
  recorded 
  by 
  Heckewelder. 
  This 
  was 
  a 
  tradition 
  

   of 
  the 
  Delawares 
  that 
  the 
  northern 
  door 
  of 
  their 
  long 
  house, 
  or 
  

   confederacy, 
  was 
  at 
  Gaasch-tinick 
  or 
  Albany, 
  and 
  the 
  southern 
  on 
  

   the 
  Potomac. 
  When 
  the 
  white 
  people 
  landed 
  they 
  began 
  to 
  tear 
  

   dowir 
  this 
  house 
  at 
  both 
  ends, 
  at 
  last 
  destroying 
  the 
  league. 
  There 
  

   is 
  no 
  known 
  historic 
  basis 
  for 
  such 
  an 
  alliance, 
  but 
  he 
  was 
  very 
  

   credulous 
  on 
  such 
  points. 
  The 
  Mahicans 
  had 
  forts 
  near 
  Albany, 
  

   bit 
  no 
  apparent 
  political 
  relations 
  with 
  Indians 
  near 
  the 
  sea. 
  

  

  Hak-i-tak 
  was 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Schoolcraft 
  as 
  a 
  stream 
  below 
  

   Coeymans, 
  called 
  by 
  others 
  Hagguato 
  and 
  Aquetuck. 
  SpafTord 
  

   said 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  old 
  Indian 
  name 
  of 
  Hockatock, 
  still 
  occasionally 
  heard, 
  

   is 
  of 
  Indian 
  or 
  Dutch 
  origin, 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  creek 
  and 
  neighborhood 
  

   along 
  its 
  borders." 
  Its 
  Indian 
  origin 
  is 
  clear. 
  

  

  I-os-co 
  is 
  Schoolcraft's 
  name 
  for 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  Norman's 
  kill, 
  

   in 
  Guilderland, 
  but 
  he 
  elsewhere 
  speaks 
  of 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  small 
  village. 
  If 
  a 
  

   Mohawk 
  word 
  it 
  would 
  mean 
  a 
  bridge, 
  but 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  

   used 
  by 
  him 
  alone. 
  It 
  appears 
  among 
  some 
  Michigan 
  names 
  as 
  

   zcater 
  of 
  light. 
  

  

  It-sut-che-ra 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  of 
  his 
  assigned 
  to 
  Trader's 
  hill, 
  once 
  three 
  

   miles 
  northwest 
  of 
  Albany. 
  He 
  prefixed 
  Yonnondio, 
  great 
  moun- 
  

   tain, 
  and 
  then 
  defined 
  it 
  hill 
  of 
  oil. 
  This 
  is 
  not 
  satisfactory, 
  nor 
  do 
  

   I 
  find 
  any 
  such 
  word 
  relating 
  to 
  oil 
  in 
  Iroquois 
  dialects. 
  If 
  the 
  

  

  