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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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We 'don't all think alike, but I would far rather see 
these millionaires, every one of them, put their money in 
game preserves, yachts, and fine houses than see them 
carry it all ofif to Europe to spend it there, and after a 
while get to be such cads as toi become ashamed of the 
country they were born in, and then get naturalized in 
England or somewhere else. Cabia Blanco. 
— «> — 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertiM 
them in Fokkst ard Stssak. 
The Deadly Toy Pistol* 
Erie, Pa., July 24.^Bditor Forest and Stream: Just 
before the Fourth of July a large number of oiir papers, 
:he Forest and Stream among them, published A warn- 
ing against the use of the toy pistol. It does not Seem to 
:iave done much good. Since the Fourth, I have kept a 
record of the deaths of boys reported to have died of 
ockjaw, taking only those in cities within a few hundred 
ailes of this, and here is the record. The total is more 
han were reported killed in many battles of the Civil 
War: Detroit, Mich., 13; Pittsburg, Pa., 8; Cleveland; 
0., 8; Plarrisburg, Pa., 4; and about twenty small towns 
report from one to three deaths. In this list I have taken 
are not to count any except boys, and none whose deaths 
ould not be traced directly to the small pistol. 
We have 60,000 people in Erie, and seem to have nearly 
enough boys for twice that number. The boys here did 
heir share of shooting on the Fourth, but they all 
jscaped death from lockjaw. We did not have a case of 
t. I examined a great many of their pistols, but found 
/ery few toy pistols among them, the most of them being 
•egular revolvers from .22 up as high as .36 caliber, and 
Most of their ammunition had been made by the U. M. C. 
}r Winchester Companies. Those that did shoot thetn- 
ielves, and some of them did, escaped the lockjaw. 
There is a law in this State that forbids, under a heavy 
ine, the sale of any kind of firearms to a boy under six- 
een years of age, but no attention seems to be paid to the 
aw by dealers. The only way to stop this annual slaugh- 
er of boys is to forbid the manufacture of these cheap, 
)oorly finished pistols. When I was a boy, with our old 
nuzzleloading pistols and black powder, we could mangle 
mrselves up on the Fourth without having the lockjaw. 
always expected to have a lot of burned fingers after 
ach Fourth of July, and generally was not disappointed, 
had them. Cabia Blanco. 
Vermont Notes. 
^ EASt BfiRKSHlRfi, Vt., July 23— Editor Forest and 
)tream: The early warm and dry spring and early sum- 
ner have been most favorable for a good crop of young 
ufifed grouse and woodeock in this part of Vermont. We 
lave seen some Coveys of young grouse that are nearly 
'ull grown. 
In the early part of the season there have been some 
rood Catches of trout in this vicinity. We have spent 
luring the past week several days trying to catch trout 
)ut of a small Spring pond near here. This pond is some 
!0 by 30 rods in extent, and with a depth of about 20 
eet. In the afternoons and evenings we would see the 
arge trout playing around on the Surface of the water, 
nit they would not take either bait^ or lure. At this 
eason there are thousands of small minnows in the pond 
Nhich the troUt Were feeding on, though they wouldn't 
lotice our minnow baits. 
Deet are seen daily wandering about the country. In 
he eastern part of BakerSfield and northern part of 
IVaterville there are Some fox hounds that should be 
poked after, aS they are very often seen running deer, 
n one instance they were driven away from a large buck 
hat had been wounded by a rifle bullet. Two of these 
logs are said to be owned by a couple of worthless 
U'enchmen — "Canucks" — and it is a pity that the commis- 
loners cannot find men to act as wardens that have back- 
)one enough to see that the laws are enforced. They arc 
villing to accept the office but too timid or indifferent to 
rrest violators of the law. It should be one of the duties 
f our deputy sheriffs to enforce the game and fish laws. 
Chen we would have a class of efficient game officers. 
In Mr. Butcher's article on the mammals of Mt. 
<^atahdin. Me., we notice that he fails to mention the 
nink, pine martin, ermine or common wildcat. All of the 
.bove are to be found in that vicinity. 
Stanstead. 
Out Macaroni Powder, 
The Galveston News is authority for a good stoiy 
.bout Gen. Miles's recent visit to that city. While in- 
pecting Fort San Jacinto one of the men who have the 
Mnmunition magazine in charge was standing at the door 
f the place with two little strips of something that 
ooked like macaroni, they being about the size and 
ength of that Italian delicacy. 
"What's that?" "said Gen. Miles. 
"Don't you know, general, what that is?" said the Gov- 
rnment official. 
"Don't believe I do," said the general, examining a 
liecc of the stuff. 
"That's the powder we use in that rifle there," as he 
•ointed to one of the giant lo-inch guns fronting out over 
he emplacement. 
Nobody laughed so heartily as the general himself at 
he very ridiculous idea of the head of the United States 
^rmy not knowing what powder was when he saw it. 
One of the officers then said, "That stuff is put up in 
hose boxes you see over in that corner there. When the 
torm hit this fort and scattered our guns and animuni- 
ion all over South Texas, it became necessary for us to 
end out an officer to locate and recover as much of it 
,s possible. One day, while in the discharge of his duty 
le came upon an old farmer up the bay somewhere who 
lad been picking up what he could find over in his sec- 
ion of the State. The officer found several of these 
)oxes stacked away in the old man's larder, and he, in 
he name of Uncle Sam, proceeded to seize the combusti- 
»]e. The officer procured a wagon, and as he was leav- 
ng the old man's place with his capture loaded on the 
vagon. the old man, with some degree of satisfaction, 
ang out : 
"Take your old macaroni. It's no good, nohow. Mary 
loiled some a whole day, and it tasted like mule."— - 
pringfield Republican. 
Canoe and Camp Life Along the 
Delaware River. 
XVIII.— Some Mentioo of its Aboriginal and Early Indian 
Life, Langaage and Legend. 
"Stoiae man, stone man, 
How niaily years have flown, man, 
Stficfe yoli left upon the face 
Of your arrowheads, the trace 
Of your skill, your needs and fears, 
Loves and battles, work and tears?" 
The answer sleeps within the lock 
On these implements of rock. 
—Magyar Ballad. 
And here the Lenape warrior came, 
His voice toned soft and low. 
The joy of health in his stalwart frame. 
To lay his arrows and bow 
At the feet of the Minisink maiden good, 
In token of fealty true 
To the fairest maiden of all the wood. 
Whom he humbled himself to sue. 
— Pocono Rhymer. 
The tent is shipped back to the city; the canoe is stored. 
This good-by to the stream is being written in a room 
of a hotel at Delaware Water Gap, from notes gathered 
a year ago. We are uneasy in stiff, white collars and 
shirts, tight shoes and "store clothes." Our sun-blackened 
faces are shaved; the comb has actually subdued into 
something like neatness, the gray shocks beneath stiff" 
straw hats. We have retired from the actual camp life 
where men can best study nature, that "struggle between 
Darkness and Light, between Mystery and Reality." 
Of course no observant angler can watch and study the 
Delaware Valley and river without wishing to know 
something of their aboriginal and Indian life and legend, 
prior to the times of Colonial and savage history which 
are covered by well-known books. But the "traditions" 
that ^ are current in some of the Delaware villages are 
evasive, traceable to no authentic source, and are, pre- 
sumptively, worthless — mere poetical and imaginative 
Creations. He who studies aboriginal life along the Dela- 
ware must go_ to the libraries — such sources of informa- 
tioit as books in the rooms of the American Philosophical 
Society, and the Pennsylvania, New York, Long Island 
and^ New Jersey Historical Societies, and especially the 
Indian granmiars, spelling books, dictionaries and manu- 
scripts owned by the Moravian Society of Bethlehem, Pa. 
He will be appalled at the scope and volume of these 
books— hundreds of them— and by their incomplete, frag- 
mentary, unauthentic and jumbled "facts." Any student 
Both made them in the "quarry" at Gaddis' Run, below 
Easton. Hundreds of "turtlebacks," or partly fashioned 
and rejected stones, were found there, together with the 
hamnier-stones which they used, and with side depressions 
or "pits" worn in them where they were grasped by the 
thumb and forefingers of the stone "chippers." In the 
quarry at Lower Black's Eddy, the extensive tool stone 
quarry had finished implements and "turtlebacks" in layers 
of soil in such shape as also to show the quarry was 
worked by the Indians, and by men who lived many 
thousands of years before them. Those old men were the 
real pioneers, and no futile attempt will be made here to 
speak of their history, for no real history of them is 
known.* 
There is so much of uncertainty and surmise in the books 
about early Indian life in the Delaware Valley, that I 
hesitate to write of it at all. Entire publications are de- 
voted to such trivial, conjectural subjects as the signifi- 
cance of the kinds, styles and manner of wearing feathers 
and scalp locks. There is endless fiction called "tradi- 
tion." Many of these fabrications have been exploded by 
Brinton's admirable work, "Myths of the New World." 
Take the very river, whose mouth was discovered by 
Hudson in 1609. Its lower, central and upper reaches had 
different names. So had the Indians, although all were 
Delawares. So had each branch of the Confederated 
Tribes, called the Lenape Wihittuck. The Unalachtigo 
sub-tribe (turkey totem) lived in the region between 
Philadelphia and Wilmington; the Assanhicans lived 
around Trenton; the Unami sub-tribe (meaning down 
stream) lived between Manunka Chunk and Trenton, and 
the Minsi (wolf totem) lived from the Water Gap to the 
creeks forming the upper Delaware waters in the 
Catskills. 
They had pictorial symbols, but no written language, 
their messages being by word of mouth; and messages 
between tribes were accompanied by a belt, knife, skin, or 
stone implement as a badge of verity. The sounds of 
their words are mainly preserved in an anonymous list of 
seven thousand words, a manuscript in the library of the 
Moravian Society at Bethlehem, but published by Brinton, 
and in the Campanius, Zeisberger and Whipple vocabu- 
laries, which were made at widely varying periods. Whip- 
ple, in 1855, wrote down many of their words in English 
as they sounded to him when pronounced by more or less 
educated Indians. Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary, 
wrote sounds of words in German as pronounced to him 
by other Indians in 1778. Campanius did the same thing 
in Swedish in 1645. Now, note from the following four 
examples how the same words differ in these vocabularies : 
Swedish. German. English 
Campanius, 1645. Zeisberger, 1778. Whipple, 1855. 
Water bij mbi bik 
Foot zijt sit zit 
Eigiit haa.s chasch hascli 
Ten thjeren tellen telen 
And here are a few words, selected almost at random, 
from the anonymous Moravian dictionary. I shall demon- 
strate later that these and other words coincide greatly 
with the words in the Walum Olum or Red Score, 
as given in Brinton's magnificent "Lenape and their 
Legends," and with the old Epic Song of the Shuwan 
LOOKING UP THE DELAWARE FROM MANUNKA. 
who wants a headache and bewilderment, can verify this 
from either volume of Fiske's "Discovery of America." 
Let him examine the great collection of stone implements 
from the Delaware Valley, in the Peabody Museum at 
Cambridge, Mass., and woitder how many thousands of 
years ago, mystic, vanished hands fashioned with hammer 
stones, those stone chisels, hatchets, axes, amulets, pipes, 
adzes, mortars and pestles, spears, harpoons, knives, jave- 
lins, scrapers, lanceheads, arrowheads, needles, fish- 
hooks, hoes and beads. Manifestly, human hands made 
them; but no message comes from their owners except 
these almost imperishable ones wrought upon stone! 
They are "lights that burn, clear and holy, from out of the 
dead Night of the Past; they who are gone are still here; 
though hidden, they are revealed; though dead, they yet 
speak. The lamp-lit pathway sheds its feebler and feebler 
light, into the boundless, dark Oblivion." Silent, eloquent 
records wrought upon flint, argillite, jasper, agate and 
gneiss ! It is one little index of early humanity's lost 
story. 
From :\Iercer's ".A.ntiquity of Man," and Abbott's 
"Stone Age in New Jersey," we learn that these imple- 
meitts have been found in strata one above the other, that 
are separated hy many thousands of years in formation, 
proving that these stone tools were made by prehistoric 
pien, as well as by "'modeni'' Indians along the Delaware. 
people that preceded the Delawares. These internal 
proofs of mutual genuineness are very gratifying. 
Lenape words from the Moravian anonymous manu- 
script dictionary, published by Brinton : 
Trout, 
Canoe, 
Chieftain, 
Fish hook, 
Outlet of river, 
Tears, 
Shallow water. 
Maschilamek. 
Araochol. 
Sakimanep. 
A man. 
Lakimk, 
Suppinquall. 
Taltehuppecat 
* In due course the writer will publish a voluminous manu- 
script, dating from about 1520, about the successors of the old 
Stone Age men in the Delaware Valley and New Jersey, giving 
over four hundred of their pictorial symbols, and nearly two 
thousand of their words and their English equivalents, together 
with several of their songs and their musical notes, besides some 
account of their deities, and religious and marriage rites. These 
people, the Shuwans, were' the ancestors of the Shawans, "In- 
dians" that came from, what is North Carolina, and settled along 
the Susquehanna River in the last half of the Seventeenth Cen- 
tury. The Shuwans were comparatively civilized, worshipped 
fire, and many traces of their language can be found in the 
Algonquin tongue, a patois of which was spoken by the Dela- 
ware (Lenape) Indians. The Shuwan people came from Labrador 
by way of Behring Strait, and probably derived their nam.e from 
a chief medicine man called Shaman, These medicine men will 
be described in the report of the Siberian Expedition sent out 
by the American Museum _ ot Natural History, and which has 
returned, bringing over thirty thousand exhibits in connection 
with ancient aboriginal life in northeastern Asia. 
