[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] are gone Its sap is frozen It bends It falls Peace, peace with the white man is the command of the Great Spirit, and the wish — the last wish of Passaconnaway." The old chief did not die at that time, but his activity was so impaired that he abdicated his throne to his son Wannalancet. He died between 1663 and 1669 — the oldest, most learned, and most eloquent of his race. SOQUANS and MINICHQUE appear as representatives of the Mahicdns on the Hudson in 1700. The first was a speaker of more than ordinary merit, as his public addresses attest. MINICHQUE is called the u great sachem " of his people, and great he certainly was in forgiving, upon his death-bed, his mur derers, and praying that they might be spared the punishment due for the offense which they had committed. There is a moral grandeur in this, the crowning act of his life, which appeals to every reasonable mind. It is to be regretted that so little is 320 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS. known of his history. There is no doubt he was one of the leaders of the Mahicans at the time the Mohawks appealed to the governor of Canada, to protect them against his nation,1 and