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  unimportant, 
  but 
  the 
  Monseys 
  or 
  Minsis 
  were 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  great 
  

   divisions 
  of 
  the 
  Delawares. 
  Mr 
  Cass 
  did 
  full 
  justice 
  to 
  Hecke- 
  

   welder's 
  character, 
  but 
  said 
  he 
  was 
  old 
  when 
  he 
  wrote 
  and 
  had 
  

   forgotten 
  much. 
  At 
  this 
  day 
  it 
  is 
  pleasant 
  to 
  see 
  what 
  an 
  intelligent 
  

   interest 
  such 
  men 
  as 
  Thomas 
  Jefferson, 
  James 
  Madison, 
  Albert 
  

   Gallatin 
  and 
  Lewis 
  Cass 
  took 
  in 
  American 
  languages. 
  As 
  Hecke- 
  

   welder 
  is 
  often 
  quoted, 
  being 
  trustworthy 
  in 
  what 
  he 
  saw 
  though 
  

   credulous 
  in 
  what 
  he 
  heard, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  well 
  to 
  quote 
  Mr 
  Cass's 
  

   words 
  in 
  part 
  : 
  

  

  His 
  intercourse 
  was 
  confined 
  to 
  a 
  small 
  band 
  of 
  the 
  Delaware 
  

   tribe, 
  who 
  during 
  many 
  years 
  received 
  the 
  humane 
  attentions 
  of 
  

   the 
  Moravians, 
  and 
  who 
  had 
  lost 
  many 
  of 
  their 
  own 
  distinctive 
  

   traits 
  without 
  acquiring 
  ours. 
  This 
  band, 
  after 
  various 
  migrations 
  

   settled 
  upon 
  the 
  Muskingum, 
  about 
  70 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  Pittsburg, 
  

   and 
  here 
  Mr 
  Heckewelder's 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  character 
  

   was 
  principally 
  acquired. 
  His 
  band 
  was 
  removed 
  from 
  this 
  place 
  

   by 
  the 
  British 
  authorities, 
  during 
  the 
  Revolutionary 
  War, 
  to 
  the 
  

   river 
  Huron 
  of 
  Lake 
  St 
  Clair, 
  and 
  Mr 
  Heckewelder 
  accompanied 
  

   and 
  remained 
  with 
  them 
  a 
  short 
  time. 
  One 
  journey 
  to 
  Vincennes, 
  

   and 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  shorter 
  excursions 
  on 
  the 
  business 
  of 
  the 
  mission, 
  

   and 
  we 
  have 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  his 
  intercourse 
  with 
  the 
  Indians. 
  . 
  . 
  If 
  

   a 
  comparison 
  be 
  instituted 
  between 
  his 
  narrative 
  and 
  memoir 
  and 
  his 
  

   history, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  obvious 
  that 
  the 
  latter 
  has 
  passed 
  through 
  other 
  

   hands, 
  and 
  has 
  assumed 
  an 
  appearance 
  its 
  author 
  could 
  never 
  have 
  

   given 
  it. 
  These 
  three 
  works 
  as 
  they 
  appear 
  before 
  the 
  public, 
  were 
  

   never 
  written 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  person. 
  Cass, 
  26 
  1372-73 
  

  

  It 
  will 
  be 
  manifest 
  that 
  his 
  acquaintance 
  with 
  the 
  language 
  was 
  

   superficial, 
  and 
  that 
  little 
  confidence 
  can 
  be 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  process 
  

   he 
  adopts, 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  conclusions 
  he 
  attains. 
  In 
  fact, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  

   visible 
  confusion 
  in 
  his 
  ideas 
  and 
  a 
  looseness 
  in 
  his 
  translation 
  

   utterly 
  incompatible 
  with 
  that 
  severity 
  of 
  research 
  and 
  exactness 
  

   of 
  knowledge, 
  which 
  give 
  the 
  investigations 
  into 
  the 
  philosophy 
  of 
  

   language 
  their 
  principal 
  value. 
  Cass, 
  26:376 
  

  

  As 
  Heckewelder 
  was 
  .continually 
  with 
  the 
  Moravian 
  Indians 
  for 
  

   15 
  years, 
  besides 
  other 
  contact, 
  the 
  above 
  hardly 
  gives 
  a 
  fair 
  idea 
  

   of 
  his 
  opportunities, 
  and 
  Mr 
  Cass 
  elsewhere 
  said 
  he 
  passed 
  his 
  

   entire 
  life 
  among 
  them. 
  In 
  his 
  first 
  article 
  he 
  dealt 
  more 
  with 
  his 
  

   credulity 
  and 
  liking 
  for 
  the 
  Delawares, 
  on 
  which 
  Cooper 
  founded 
  

   their 
  character 
  in 
  his 
  Indian' 
  tales. 
  Others 
  have 
  commented 
  on 
  

   this 
  weakness, 
  and 
  having 
  known 
  him 
  well, 
  Mr 
  Cass 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  a 
  man 
  of 
  moderate 
  intellect, 
  and 
  of 
  still 
  more 
  moderate 
  

  

  