Excerpt from History of the Delaware and Iroquois Indians: Formerly Inhabiting the Middle States, With Various Anecdotes, Illustrating Their Manners and Customs; Embellished With a Variety of Original Cuts; Written for the American Sunday School Union and Revised by the Committee of Publication
Genni Lennape, or Delawares. - Their own tradition of their origin. - Reflections on the first settlers in North America. - Indian account of their first interview with the Europeans. - Introduction of intoxicating liquors. - Departure and return of the whites. - The fraud they practiced on the natives. - William Penn a just man - Great affection of the Indians for the memory of Penn. - Injustice of the whites. - New York and Virginia first settled.
The Lenni Lennape, or, as they were afterwards called, the Delawares, (according to the traditions handed down to them by their ancestors,) resided many hundred years ago, in a very distant country, in the western part of the American continent. For some reason which has not been explained, they determined on migrating to the eastward, and after a very long journey arrived at the Namasi Sipu, (that is, the river of fish,) now called the Mississippi.
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