primitive language which was the most widely diffused, and the most the fertile in dialects, received from

French the name of Algonquin. It was the mother tongue of those who greeted the colonists of Raleigh at Roanoke, of those who welcomed the Pilgrims at PlyIt was heard from the Bay of mouth. Gaspe to the valley of the Des Moines, from Cape Fear, and, it may be, from the Savannah, to the land of the Esquimaux } from the Cumberland river of Kentucky to the southern bank of the Mississippi."

Bancroft, HI, 237.

" The Delawares were the head of all

All nations except the Mingoes and their accomplices, were united with them and had free access to them 5 or in nations.

their own words, according to their figumanner of expressing themselves, the united nations had one house, one fire,

rative

and one canoe.'"'' Hcckeiu elder. 3 " Clean across this extent of

country

(namely from Albany to the Potomac), our grandfather had a long house, with a door at each end, which doors were always open to all the nations united with them. To this house the nations from ever so far off used to resort, and smoke the pipe of peace with their grandfather. The white people coming from over the great

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

tion is that the Iroquois, finding the contest in which they were

engaged, too great for them, as they had to cope on the 'one hand with the French, and on the other with native prowess, resorted to a master stroke of intrigue. They sent an embassy