[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] differed from them in their dialect, in the territory which they occupied, and in their alliances; having in the latter re spect a nominal representation with the authorities of New York and a positive one with Massachusetts. The Mohegans of Connecticut were one of the very few tribes whose organization and subsequent history is a matter of record 5 the Ma-bicans of the Hudson ante-date all human knowledge. 6 " The term Lenape" says Schoolcraft, " appears to carry the same meaning as inaba, a male, and the word was proba bly used nationally, and with emphasis in the sense of men." " I have called them simply Lenapc, as they do them selves in most instances." — Hcckeiuelder. OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 45 or Men of the East.1 Their territory extended from the KatskiK mountains south to the Potomac, occupying the region watered by the Hudson, the Delaware,2 the Susquehanna and the Potomac. The site of their ancient council-fire was at what is now Philadelphia, on the bank of the Lenapewihituk, or Delaware river; Lenape, the term given to themselves, and ituk a geographical equivalent for the English word domain or territory.3 According to tradition 4 handed down from their ancestors, the Lennl Lenapes resided for many centuries in a very distant country, in the western part of the American continent. Hav ing resolved to move eastward, they set out in a body in search of a new home; and after a long journey and many nights encampment, (i.