[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] e., halts of one year at a place), they reached the Namaesl Sipee (Mississippi), where they fell in with another nation, the Mengwe, or Iroquois, who had also emigrated from a distant country for the same purpose. The region east of the Mississippi was occupied by the Allegewi (Alleghany), a powerful and partially civilized people, having numerous large towns defended by Regular fortifications and entrenchments.5 1 " These people are known and called by all the western, northern and some of the southern nations by the name of Wappanachki, which the Europeans have corrupted into Apenaki, Openagi, Abenaquis, and Abenakis. All these names, however differently written, and improperly understood by authors, point to one and the same people, the Lenape, who are by this compound word called People at the rising of the Sun, or as we would say Eastlanders; and are acknowledged by near forty tribes, whom we call nations. All these nations, de rived from the same stock, recognize each other as Wappanachki, which among them is a generic name." — Hecke-iu elder. 2 Their territorial possessions on the Hudson are clearly defined. Onderis