[62] For “Delawares” read “Mohicans.”
[63] An Indian corruption of the word English, whence probably the nickname Yankees.
[64] This word means “a cluster of islands with channels every way, so that it is in no place shut up or impassable for craft.” The Indians think that the white people have corrupted this word into Massachusetts. It deserves to be remarked as an example of the comprehensiveness of the Indian languages.
[65] The Delaware river. I have said above, p. 51, that Hittuck means a rapid stream. I should have added that it means so only when placed at the end of another word, and used as a compound. Singly, it signifies a tree.
[66] The Swedes and Dutch.
[67] William Penn.
[68] Land traders and speculators.
[69] Easton, Northampton County, Pa.
[70] This actually took place at a treaty held at Easton in July and November, 1756.
[71] Council house here means “Connexion District.”