[81] Coll. Ternaux-Compans, IX, pp. 181-183.
[82] Acosta. The Natural and Moral History of the East and West Indies, Lond. ed., 1604, Grimstone’s Trans., pp. 500-503.
[83] Near the close of the last century the Seneca-Iroquois, at one of their villages on the Alleghany river, set up an idol of wood, and performed dances and other religious ceremonies around it. My informer, the late William Parker, saw this idol in the river into which it had been cast. Whom it personated he did not learn.
[84] They were admitted into the Creek Confederacy after their overthrow by the French.
[85] About 1651-5, they expelled their kindred tribes, the Eries, from the region between the Genesee river and Lake Erie, and shortly afterwards the Neutral Nations from the Niagara river, and thus came into possession of the remainder of New York, with the exception of the lower Hudson and Long Island.
[86] The Iroquois claimed that it had existed from one hundred and fifty to two hundred years when they first saw Europeans. The generations of sachems in the history by David Cusick (a Tuscarora), would make it more ancient.
[87] My friend, Horatio Hale, the eminent philologist, came, as he informed me, to this conclusion.
[88] These names signify as follows: 1. “Neutral,” or “the Shield.”
[89] “Man who Combs.”
[90] “Inexhaustible.”