Lippincott's Magazine
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE,
NOVEMBER, 1878.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, byJ.B. Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the Librarian ofCongress, at Washington.
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CONTENTS
SEAWANHAKA, THE ISLAND OF SHELLS.
WRECK OF THE CIRCASSIAN.IT is not by any means certain what was the name by which Long Islandwas known to the aboriginal dwellers in its "forest primeval," or indeed522that they ever had a common name by which to designate it. It seemsprobable that each tribe bestowed upon it a different name, expressiveof the aspect that appeared most striking to its primitive and poeticalvisitors and occupants. Among so many tribes—the Canarsees (who metHudson when on September 4, 1609, he anchored in Gravesend Bay), theRockaways, Nyacks, Merrikokes, Matinecocs, Marsapeagues, Nissaquages,Corchaugs, Setaukets, Secataugs, Montauks, Shinecocs, Patchogues, andManhansetts, to say nothing of the Pequots and Narragansetts on thenorthern shore of the Sound—a community of usage in regard tonomenclature could hardly be expected. We accordingly find that one ofthe old names of the island was Mattenwake, a compound of Mattai, theDelaware for "