[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 23 when they found grain was very plenty in that country, they agreed to kindle a fire there and hang a kettle whereof they and their children after them might dip out their daily refreshment.1 The name given by the Mohicans and the Lenapes to the Hudson River was the Mohicanituk, or River of the Mohicans, signifying " the constantly flowing waters." By the Iroquois it was called the Coha-tatea. The Mohicans belonged to the great Algonquin race stock, which mar be said to have embraced all the Indian nations from the Atlantic TOTEMIC SIGNATURES. to the Mississippi. Its different branches had a general similarity of language, and while the separate modifications were numerous and extreme, all the Indians within these bounds understood one another. The Mohican power is regarded by Ruttenber as hardly less formid-able than that of the Iroquois, and he points out that notwithstanding the boasted supremacy of the Iroquois in war there is no historical evidence that the Mohicans were ever brought under subjection to them or despoiled of any portion of their territory. Yet it is unques-tionable that the Iroquois exacted and received tribute from the Long Island Indians; and this could hardly have happened without pre-viously obtaining dominion over the Mohicans. On the other hand, it is certain that the Mohicans never tamely submitted to the northern conquerors.