History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 7 (part 3)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Iu the same con-nection, still viewing objects from this point, he says, " On the west side (meaning Communipaw) are the Sanbickans... they dwell within the Sandy Hook, ami along the bay, as well as in the interior of the country." (6) Van Der Donck ("History of New Netherland," 1(150) speaking of the languages of the American Indians, says they may be "counted as four, — viz.: Manhattan, Minimis, Savanoos and Wappauons. With the Manhattans (he adds) we include those who live in the neighboring placet along the Xorth Hirer, on Long Island and at the Xeversink. With the Minquas we include the Senecas, the Maquaas and the other inland tribes. The Savanoos are the Southern nations, and the Wappauoos are the Eastern nations." This author has here been understood to mean that the Manhattan tribe extended upward to " the neighboring places along the Xorth River," whereas he clearly means this only, — that of the four general Indian lan-guages, of which he speaks, the Manhattan language was spoken by the