FOOTNOTES:
[A] Hudson.
[B] Or Ho-de-no-son-ne.
[C] The corresponding word in the Seneca dialect is Tod-o-dah-hoh.
[D] Indian Picture Writing.
[E] Onondaga.
PREFACE.
In Indian mythology may be found the richest poetic materials. An American Author is unworthy of the land that gave him birth if he passes by with indifference this well-spring of inspiration, sending liberally forth a thousand enchanted streams. It has given spiritual inhabitants to our valleys, rivers, hills and inland seas; it has peopled the dim and awful depths of our forests with spectres, and, by the power of association, given our scenery a charm that will make it attractive forever. The material eye is gratified by a passing glimpse of nature's external features, but a beauty, unseen, unknown before, invests them if linked to stories of the past, in the creation of which fabling fancy has been a diligent co-worker with memory.