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This message puzzled the Mohegan chief. The appearance of a schism in the English counsels was more than he could quite fathom. When the affair had somewhat more fully developed itself, some of the Indians spoke of the white men as divided into two rival tribes, the Gortonoges and Wattaconoges. Roger Williams tells us that the latter term, applied to the men of Boston, meant coat-wearers.
Here you would have seen the calm impenetrable face of La Salle, and with him the Mohegan hunter, who seems to have felt towards him that admiring attachment which he could always inspire in his Indian retainers.
It comes from the Mohegan words Apo-keep-sink, meaning a safe, pleasant harbor. Harbor it might be for canoes, but for nothing bigger, for it was only the little cove that was so called between Call Rock and Adder Cliff, the former indicating where settlers awaiting passage hailed the masters of vessels from its top, and the latter taking its name from the snakes that abounded there.
Joseph, bordered with dreary meadows and bare gray forests. When they approached the site of the present village of South Bend, they looked anxiously along the shore on their right to find the portage or path leading to the headquarters of the Illinois. The Mohegan was absent, hunting; and, unaided by his practised eye, they passed the path without seeing it. La Salle landed to search the woods.
Leather-Stocking and Mohegan had alone drawn aside to their youthful companion; and, although in the immediate vicinity of such a throng, the following conversation was heard only by those who were interested in it. I have greatly injured you, Mr.
Thereupon Winthrop desisted, and referred the matter to the Virginia authorities. In 1634, when the settlements were forming on the Connecticut, a fresh irritation was caused by the course of the emigrants in negotiating for their lands with the Mohegan chiefs instead of with the Pequots, the lords paramount of the soil.
In the mean time, Mohegan had been examining, with an Indians sagacity, the place where the leather thong had been separated. After scrutinizing it closely, he said, in Delaware: It was cut with a knife a sharp blade and a long handle the man was afraid of the dogs. How is this, Mohegan? exclaimed Edwards; you saw it not! how can you know these facts?
We have already mentioned the baptismal name of this ancient chief; but in his conversation with Natty, held in the language of the Delawares, he was heard uniformly to call himself Chingachgook, which, interpreted, means the Great Snake. This name he had acquired in his youth, by his skill and prowess in war; but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head- waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.
"You are a woman that has never heard a tradition, or you would know better! A Pequot is a weak and crawling cub." "And thou thou art then a Narragansett?" "Don't I look like a man?" "I had mistaken thee for one of our nearer neighbors, the Mohegan Pequods."
The early relations between the Dutch and English colonies were, as we have seen, characterized by kindness and good-fellowship. Afterwards, some Mohegan Indians visiting Plymouth in 1631 made similar representations. Their chief, Uncas, an able, unscrupulous, and ambitious savage, made it his great ambition to attain the headship of his aggressive western neighbors, the Pequots.
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