[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Sales east of the Taghkanick mountains, in the state of Connecticut, are recorded, and among others that of a tract to Johannes Diksman and Lawrence Knickerbacker, now in the town of Salisbury, the grantors being Konaguin, Sakow-anahook and others " all of the nation of Mohokandas." Al most touching the shore of the southern extremity of Lake Champlain, " Mahican Abraham" asserted his proprietorship, indicating tribal possession seventy miles north of Albany. In view of these records there is no difficulty in determining the value of the assertion that the Mahuans were driven back to the Housatonic " by their implacable enemies, the Mohawks." The more important proposition is, how came the former west of the Hudson, if the prowess of their rivals was so supreme ? Reference has already been made to the capital or council-fire of the nation as having been at Westenhuck. That the ori ginal capital was at Schodac is affirmed by the Dutch records and by the traditions of the tribe, and accords with the interpretation of the name itself. Like other tribes, they recoiled before the