To these facts it may be added that deeds from King Aepjin show that his council-fire was kept burning at Schodac 3 as late as 1664 ; that one of the castles of the nation, that at Cohoes, was in occupation by them as late as 1660, and that the records of the commissioners of Indian affairs show an organization, distinct from that which was recognized by Mas sachusetts but clearly subordinate to it, for> over half a century after the English succeeded the Dutch in the government. It

only remains to harmonize these facts with the statements That, as already intimated, a canton or chieftaincy

referred to.

" The business of furs is dull on account of a

new war of the Maechibacys

but these beat and captured the Maikans and drove off the remainder, who have

(Mohawks)

against the Maikans at the

retired

There upper end of this river. occurred cruel murders on both

river,

sides,

cultivate

The Maikans have fled and their lands are unoccupied,

and they are very fertile

and pleasant."

Michaelius, Colonial History, n,

769. beginning of this year (1628) war broke out between the Maikans, near Fort Orange, and the Mohawks,

" In the

towards the north by the Fresh called, where they begin to the soil ; and thus the war terminated." Wassenaar, Documentary

have

so

History, in, 48. 8 It is not certain that Schodac was the

The prooriginal capital of the nation. babilities are that it was, and that it was subsequently removed to Westenhuck, in the valley of the Housatonic.