[ [110] For an example, see de Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, p. 342.
[ [111] Documentary History of New York, Vol. IV, p. 437.
[ [112] Journal of Conrad Weiser; in Early History of Western Penna., p. 16.
[ [113] Tran. Am. Phil. Soc., Vol. IV, p. 384.
[ [114] A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language, s. v. Peinture.
[ [115] [See ante p. 53.] Mr. Francis Vincent, in his History of the State of Delaware, p. 36 (Phila., 1870), says of the colored earth of that locality, that it is "a highly argillaceous loam, interspersed with large and frequent masses of yellow, ochrey clay, some of which are remarkable for fineness of texture, not unlike lithomarge, and consists of white, yellow, red and dark blue clay in detached spots."
The Shawnees applied the same word to Paint Creek, which falls into the Scioto, close to Chilicothe. They named it Alamonee sepee, of which Paint Creek is a literal rendering. Rev. David Jones, A Journal of Two Visits to the West Side of the Ohio in 1772 and 1773, p. 50.
[ [116] Key into the Language of America, p. 206
[ [117] Lawson, in his New Account of Carolina, p. 180, says that the natives there bore in mind their traditions by means of a "Parcel of Reeds of different Lengths, with several distinct Marks, known to none but themselves." James Adair writes of the Southern Indians "They count certain very remarkable things by notched square sticks, which are distributed among the head warriors and other chieftains of different towns." History of the Indians, p. 75.
[ [118] Dr Edwin James, Narrative of John Tanner, p. 341
[ [119] George Copway, Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation, pp 130, 131.