[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Below the Mohicans from Roeloff Jansen's kill to the sea, the Wolf again appeared as the totem of the Wappingers; while the Montauks bore the emblem of the Turtle.4 The prevailing totem of all the Hudson river cantons was the Wolf, borne alike by Minsis, Wappingers and Mahicans^ leading the French to call them all Loups or wolves, and affording Mr. Schoolcraft the basis for his 1 " The Turtle tribe, among the Len-their protection, watching the motions of apes, claims^ a superiority and ascendancy the Meng<we, and being at hand to afford over the others because of their relation their aid in case of rupture with them. to the great tortoise, a fabled monster, The Minsi were considered the most the Atlas of their mythology, who bears, warlike and active branch of the Lenape. according to their traditions, this great They extended their settlements from island, as they term the world, on his the Minisink, a place named after them, back} and also superior because he is where they had their council seat and amphibious." — fates and Moultons His-fire, quite up to the Hudson 5 and to the tory. Politically the Turtle and Turkey west, or southwest, far^beyond the Susque-tribes were associated in the same govern-hanna 5 their northern boundaries were ment, while the Minsis had a distinct supposed originally to be the heads of organization.