[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Dans-Kammer point. water, etc., which were and still are 2 "There being no previous survey to the known to very few Christians. Some-grants, their boundaries are expressed with times the grant is of the land that be-much uncertainty, by the Indian names longed to such an Indian by name, or is of brooks, rivulets, hills, ponds, falls of bounded by such an Indian's land, but to OF HUDSON'S RWER. 73 Their principal village was about the site of the village of Flat-lands, where there is a place which still retains the name of Canarsee, and was, perhaps, the residence of the sachem. This chieftaincy was pf considerable power in 1643, when it stood at the head of the Long Island tribes who were engaged in the war with the Dutch. Penhawitz was the first sachem known to the Dutch, by whom he was styled the Great Sachem of Canarsee. The names of the chiefs in 1670, as given in a deed for the site of the present city of Brooklyn, were Peter, Elmohar, Job, Makagiquas, and Shamese. 2d. The Rockaways^ who were scattered over the southern part of the town of Hempstead, which, with a part of Jamaica and the whole of Newtown, constituted the bounds of their claim. Their main settlement was at Near Rockaway. The first sachem known to the Dutch was Chegonoe. Eskmoppas appears to have been sachem in 1670, and Parnau in 1685. 3d.