[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their tradition that they were " the head of the Algonquin x nations,2 and held the Mengwe in subjection," is not without confirmation. The precise time at which the latter condition was reversed, cannot be stated; but the causes leading thereto are now pretty cor rectly ascertained. Their long house was invaded alike by the Europeans and the Ir&quois, with special advantages to the latter in position, and in the facility with which they could obtain arms.3 The tradition which they gave of their subjuga-cured. The great error of Massachusetts 2" The Delawares were the head of all was the war which she made upon them, nations. All nations except the Mingoes as she subsequently learned. and their accomplices, were united with 1 " The primitive language which was them and had free access to them 5 or in the most widely diffused, and the most their own words, according to their figu-fertile in dialects, received from the rative manner of expressing themselves, French the name of Algonquin. It was the united nations had one house, one fire, the mother tongue of those who greeted and one canoe.'"'' — Hcckeiu elder. the colonists of Raleigh at Roanoke, of 3 " Clean across this extent of country those who welcomed the Pilgrims at Ply-(namely from Albany to the Potomac), mouth.