[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Inured to abstemiousness by the rigors of his lot and but little dis-posed to sexual gratification, the Indian yet fell an easy victim, and speedily became an abject slave, to strong drink. It was not the taste but the stimulating properties of the white man's rum which en-thralled him. Hudson relates that when he first offered the intoxicat-ing cup to his Indian visitors while at anchor in New York Bay, they one and all refused it after smelling the liquor and touching their lips to it. But finally one of their number, fearing that offense might be taken at their rejection of it, made bold to swallow it, and ex-perienced great exhilaration of spirits in consequence, which led his companions to follow his example, with like pleasing effects. Robert Juet, the mate of the " Half Moon,'' gravely says in his journal : " Our master and his mate determined to try some of the cheefe men of the country, whether they had any treachery in them. So they took them down into the cabin, and gave them so much wine and aquse vitse that thev were all verv merie)'1 Rum, or rather distilled liquor of every i The name of Manhattan Island is popularly ahaehtanienk. which, in the Delaware Ian-supposed to commemorate these joyous inebrie-guage, means ' the island where we all became ties Heckewelder savs: " They called it Man-intoxicated.'" Most popular writers have J-0 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY