[4] Chesapeak Bay.
[5] See the Tradition post.
[6] The greater part of the Indians of the Western Continent believe themselves descended from, or colonies of, the Lenni Lenapes, and hence give to that tribe the epithet, "grandfather." Several of the tribes have a tradition, that they came from beyond the Rocky Mountains.
[7] Oniagarah, Niagara: the former is the Indian pronunciation of the name of that celebrated cataract.
[8] See the note relating to the Mammoth in the tradition of "The Coming of Miquon."
[9] Intoxicating bean.—See Long's First Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
[10] See the tradition, entitled "The Valley of the Bright Old Inhabitants."
[11] When an Indian wishes to express his admiration of music, he likens it to the notes of the Mocking-Bird. When the Winnabagoes visited Philadelphia, in the winter of 1828, they went to the Chesnut-street theatre, to hear Mrs. Knight sing: one of the chiefs, wishing to testify his delight, plucked an eagle's feather, and sent it to her by the box-keeper, with the message, that "she was a mocking-bird squaw."—American paper.
[12] The physic-nut, or Indian olive. The Indians, when they go in pursuit of deer, carry this fruit with them, supposing that it has the power of charming or drawing that creature to them.
[13] Button snakeroot.