History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 36
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 Colonial History, iv, 98. Esopus in 1 660. The treaty which was 3 The terms Minquas, Minsis, Monseys, concluded by the one was concluded by and Munsies are convertible. The Min-the other. -quas who sold lands on the Delaware 70 THE INDIAN TRIBES natchet in my hand but a pestle or a hominy pounder." But through the thick gloom which shrouds the history of their sub jugation, through all the degradation and reproach which was heaped upon them as " a nation of women," there runs a thread of light revealing their former greatness, pleading the causes of their decay, promising that their dead shall live again. Not in the eternal darkness which shuts in the Eries is that light lost, but from its prison house breaks in brilliancy, redeeming the past, and wringing from their ancient subjugators, shivering under adverse fortune, the greeting — BROTHERS.