[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the Mohegan, as spoken at wolf, or a wolf of supernatural power, the present time by their lineal descend-This was the badge of arms of the tribe, ants, the Stockbridges of Wisconsin, rather than the name of the tribe it-Maihtshoiv is the name of the common self." — Schooler aft. Compare with the wolf. It is called, in the cognate dialects statement of Capt. Hendrick, quoted of the Algonquin, Myegan by the Kenis-ante, p. 42. tenos, and Myeengun by the Chippewas, 1 Their various tongues may be classed etc. In the old Algonquin, as given by into four distinct languages, namely, Man-La Hontan, it is Mahingan, and we per-hattan, Minqua, Savanoo and Wappanoos. ceive that this was the term adopted by With the Manhattans we include those the early French writers for the Mohe-who live in the neighboring places along gans. The term itself, it is to be under-the North river, on Long Island, and at stood, by which the tribe is known to us, the Neversink; with the Minquas, we is not the true Indian, but has been include the Senecas, the Maquas, and shorn of a part of its true sound by the other inland tribes. The Savanoos are early French, Dutch and English writers, '^the southern nations and the Wappanoos The modern tribe of the Mohegans, to the eastern. — Van der Donck, N. T. Hist. whom allusion' has been made, called Soc. Coll., ad Series, i, zo6; Wassenaar, themselves Muhhekanleiv. * * Mohcgan Doc. Hist., in, 46. was a phrase to denote an enchanted