[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] found in all nations, whose record is marred by the weaknesses of age. " It is not conceived necessary to digress or deny the fact that Noah got drunk." x 1 History of Indian Nations, part v, 518, etc. APPENDIX. 327 The Moravian missionaries have preserved in their records the names and services of many of the Indian chiefs with whom they were associated, but none whose character is brighter than that of the Mahican chieftain, WASAMAPAH, or Tschoop, who, after his conversion was called John. He was tfie ruling chief at Shekomeko, in the present county of Dutchess. When first met by the missionary Rauch, he is described as the " great est drunkard " among his people, and as being crippled by his vices. He became not only a convert, but an interpreter and a preacher of the word of life. Most eloquent is his own account of his conversion : cc Brethren, I have been a heathen, and have grown old among the heathen, therefore I know how the heathen think. Once a preacher came and began to explain to us that there was a God. We answered : ' Dost thou think we are so ignorant as not to know that ? Go back to the place from whence thou earnest ? ' Then, again, another