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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Ju-ta-la'-ga 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Amsterdam 
  or 
  Chucte- 
  

   nunda 
  creek, 
  but 
  he 
  thought 
  the 
  meaning 
  was 
  lost. 
  

  

  Ka-hek-a-nun-da, 
  hill 
  of 
  berries, 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Mohawk. 
  This 
  

   definition 
  is 
  probably 
  erroneous, 
  and 
  a 
  better 
  one 
  may 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  

   karhakoha, 
  hawk, 
  and 
  nunda, 
  hill. 
  Barber 
  and 
  Howe 
  quoted 
  an 
  

   account 
  of 
  Tribes 
  Hill 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  Mohawk 
  name 
  of 
  this 
  elevation 
  is 
  

   Kaheka-nunda,' 
  or 
  ' 
  hill 
  of 
  berries 
  ' 
  ; 
  probably 
  because 
  many 
  berries 
  

   were 
  found 
  there. 
  The 
  ancient 
  Mohawks 
  required 
  their 
  male 
  

   papooses 
  to 
  run 
  up 
  and 
  down 
  this 
  hill, 
  and 
  those 
  who 
  flagged 
  under 
  

   the 
  exercise, 
  were 
  deemed 
  unqualified 
  to 
  endure 
  the 
  fatigues 
  of 
  

   war." 
  

  

  Ka-na-da-rauk 
  creek, 
  bread. 
  Bruyas 
  gives 
  gannatarok 
  this 
  mean- 
  

   ing 
  in 
  Mohawk. 
  In 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Palatine, 
  Spafford 
  

   said: 
  "In 
  the 
  S. 
  E. 
  corner 
  of 
  this 
  town, 
  just 
  above 
  the 
  Nose, 
  the 
  

   natives 
  had, 
  from 
  a 
  very 
  remote 
  period 
  of 
  their 
  history, 
  a 
  curious 
  

   kind 
  of 
  Indian 
  corn 
  mill, 
  from 
  which 
  circumstance 
  the 
  little 
  stream, 
  

   now 
  called 
  Bread 
  creek, 
  has 
  its 
  name. 
  . 
  . 
  They 
  called 
  the 
  place 
  

   Can-agh-da-rox, 
  bread 
  creek, 
  and 
  when 
  the 
  Europeans 
  came 
  to 
  their 
  

   country, 
  at 
  an 
  early 
  period, 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  had 
  a 
  gristmill 
  erected 
  

   upon 
  it." 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  story 
  with 
  doubtful 
  features. 
  

  

  Ka-naugh-ta 
  Au-ske-ra-da 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Canada 
  lake. 
  If 
  the 
  last 
  

   word 
  is 
  a 
  corruption 
  of 
  akaraji 
  this 
  would 
  be 
  elm 
  lake. 
  

  

  Ka-ya-de-ros-se-ras 
  creek 
  was 
  3 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  Amsterdam, 
  and 
  

   Fort 
  Johnson 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  side. 
  

  

  Ken-ha-na-ga-ra, 
  there 
  lies 
  the 
  river, 
  according- 
  to 
  A. 
  Cusick, 
  the 
  

   traveler 
  having 
  arrived 
  either 
  at 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  or 
  Schoharie 
  creek. 
  

   It 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  an 
  early 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  latter, 
  and 
  suggests 
  

   the 
  next. 
  

  

  Ken-nen-da-ha-re 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Nose, 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  side 
  of 
  

   the 
  Mohawk. 
  Tooker 
  wrote 
  this 
  Kanendakherie, 
  a 
  high 
  mountain, 
  

   and 
  assigned 
  it 
  to 
  Anthony's 
  Nose 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson, 
  an 
  obvious 
  error. 
  

  

  Ma-qua, 
  a 
  bear, 
  was 
  the 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  nation 
  

   used 
  by 
  the 
  Dutch, 
  and 
  hence 
  the 
  river 
  was 
  often 
  called 
  the 
  Maquas 
  

   kill. 
  Mohawk 
  was 
  from 
  moho, 
  to 
  cat 
  living 
  things. 
  In 
  1676 
  they 
  

   were 
  mentioned 
  as 
  " 
  Maugwa-wogs, 
  or 
  Mohawks, 
  i. 
  e. 
  man-eaters." 
  

   A 
  later 
  writer 
  supposed 
  the 
  word 
  meant 
  muskrat 
  river, 
  but 
  he 
  also 
  

   derived 
  it 
  from 
  moho, 
  to 
  eat, 
  defining 
  it 
  cannibal 
  river. 
  Most 
  In- 
  

   dians 
  sometimes 
  literally 
  devoured 
  their 
  enemies. 
  

  

  