...............................I'll fetch it.
Seyendere u...................................I know him well.
Kristoni asseroni.............................Netherlanders, Germans.
Aderondackx...................................Frenchmen or Englishmen.
Anesagghena...................................Mahicans, or Mohigans.
Torsas........................................To the north.
Kanon newage..................................Manhattan.
Onscat........................................One.
Tiggeni.......................................Two.
Asse..........................................Three.
Cayere........................................Four.
Wisch.........................................Five.
Jayack........................................Six.
Tsadack.......................................Seven.
Sategon.......................................Eight.
Tyochte.......................................Nine.
Oyere.........................................Ten.
Tawasse.......................................Forty.
Onscat teneyawe...............................Hundred.
BEGIN "MEGAPOLENSIS ON THE MOHAWKS."
A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians, by Reverend Johannes
Megapolensis, Jr., 1644. In J. Franklin Jameson, ed., Narratives of
New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of Early American
History). NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians, their Country, Language,
Stature, Dress, Religion and Government, thus described and recently,
August 26, 1644, sent out of New Netherland, by Johannes Megapolensis
the younger, Preacher there.
The Country here is in general like that in Germany. The land is good,
and fruitful in everything which supplies human needs, except clothes,
linen, woollen, stockings, shoes, etc., which are all dear here. The
country is very mountainous, partly soil, partly rocks, and with
elevations so exceeding high that they appear to almost touch the
clouds. Thereon grow the finest fir trees the eye ever saw. There are
also in this country oaks, alders, beeches, elms, willows, etc. In the
forests, and here and there along the water side, and on the islands,
there grows an abundance of chestnuts, plums, hazel nuts, large walnuts
of several sorts, and of as good a taste as in the Netherlands, but
they have a somewhat harder shell. The ground on the hills is covered
with bushes of bilberries or blueberries; the ground in the fl
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