The last interest of this unfortunate tribe centres in Logan, the friend of the white man, whose speech is so familiar to all, that we must regret that it has not sustained the historical scrutiny of Brantz Mayer (Tahgahjute; or, Logan and Capt. Michael Cresap, Maryland Hist. Soc., May, 1851; and 8vo, Albany, 1867). Logan was a Conestoga, in other words a Susquehanna.
Note 47, page [71].
The language of the Susquehannas, as Smith remarks, differed from that of the Virginian tribes generally. As already stated, it was one of the dialects of the Huron-Iroquois, and its relation to other members of the family may be seen by the following table of the numerals:
| Susquehanna or Minqua. | Hochelaga. | Huron. | Mohawk. | Onondaga. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Onskat, | Segada, | Eskate, | Easka, | Unskat. |
| 2. | Tiggene, | Tigneny, | Téni, | Tekeni, | Tegni. |
| 3. | Axe, | Asche, | Hachin, | Aghsea, | Achen. |
| 4. | Raiene, | Honnacon, | Dac, | Kieri, | Gayeri. |
| 5. | Wisck, | Ouiscon, | Ouyche, | Wisk, | Wisk. |
| 6. | Jaiack, | Indahir, | Houhahea, | Yayak, | Haiak. |
| 7. | Tzadack, | Ayaga, | Sotaret, | Jatak, | Tchiatak. |
| 8. | Tickerom, | Addegue, | Attaret, | Satego, | Tegeron. |
| 9. | Waderom, | Madellon, | Nechon, | Tiyohto, | Waderom. |
| 10. | Assan, | Assem, | Oyeri. |
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Note 48, page [73].
Smith thus describes them: “Sixty of those Sasquesahanocks came to vs with skins, Bowes, Arrows, Targets, Beads, swords and Tobacco pipes for presents. Such great and well proportioned men are seldome seene, for they seemed like Giants to the English; yea and to the neighbours, yet seemed of an honest and simple disposition, with much adoe restrained from adoring vs as Gods. Those are the strangest people of all those Countries, both in language and attire; for their language it may well beseeme their proportions, sounding from them as a voyce in a vault. Their attire is the skinnes of Beares, and Woolues, some have Cassacks made of Beares heads and skinnes, that a mans head goes through the skinnes neck, and the eares of the Beare fastened to his shoulders, the nose and teeth hanging downe his breast, another Beares face split behind him, and at the end of the Nose hung a Pawe, the halfe sleeues comming to the elbowes were the neckes of Beares and the armes through the mouth with the pawes hanging at their noses. One had the head of a Wolfe hanging in a chaine for a Iewell, his tobacco pipe three-quarters of a yard long, prettily carued with a Bird, a Deere or some such devise at the great end, sufficient to beat out ones braines; with Bowes, Arrowes and Clubs, suitable to their greatnesse. They are scarce known to Powhatan. They can make near 600 able men, and are palisadoed in their Townes to defend them from the Massawomekes, their mortal enemies. Five of their chief Werowances came aboord vs and crossed the Bay in their Barge. The picture of the greatest of them is signified in the Mappe. The calfe of whose leg was three-quarters of a yard about, and all the rest of his limbes so answerable to that proportion, that he seemed the goodliest man we ever beheld. His hayre, the one side was long, the other shore close with a ridge over his crowue like a cocks combe. His arrowes were five-quarters long, headed with the splinters of a White christall-like stone, in form of a heart, an inch broad, and an inch and a halfe or more long. These he wore in a Woolues skinne at his backe for his quiver, his bow in one hand and his club in the other, as described.”—Smith’s Voyages (Am. ed.), I, p. 119–20. Tattooing referred to by our author, was an ancient Egyptian custom, and is still retained by the women. See Lane’s Modern Egyptians, etc. It was forbidden to the Jews in Leviticus, 19: 28.
Note 49, page [74].
“Purchas, his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this present,” 1 vol., folio, 1613. In spite of Alsop, Purchas is still highly esteemed. {123}