[24] "Tortoise," or Noble Clan.
[25] He is an Oneida.
[26] "A real man," in Canienga dialect. The Saguenay's Iroquois is mixed and imperfect.
[27] "Disappearing Mist"—Sakayen-gwaration.
[28] Che-go-sis—pickerel. In the Oneida dialect, Ska-ka-lux or Bad-eye.
[29] In October, 1919, the author talked to a farmer and his son, who, a few days previously, while digging sand to mend the Johnstown road at this point, had disinterred two skeletons which had been buried there. From the shape of the skulls, it is presumed that the remains were Indian.
[30] Indian lore. The yellow moccasin flower is the whippoorwill's shoe.
[31] A secret society common to all nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.
[32] 32 parallel to The Expedition to Danbury, printed in a Pennsylvania newspaper, May 14th, 1777.
[33] Carkers—carcass—a shell fired from a small piece of artillery.