These were all small bauds of Indians,
but the Matebapuugoes were a large
tribe and had several villages, one at
or near Wacliapreague, another low?
er down the neck and yet anotherou
the woodlands and Brownsville farms
th Northampton Dr. Brintou say/,
the word Matchapungo means line
duct, or Hies, aud us the uame be?
longed to Hog Island, us well na to
the river sud to the Iudiau tribe, we
may reasouably infer iu the absence
of a nj thing to the coutrarj, that
the saud or mosquitoes ou Hog
Island gave rise to the name,
Their money waa Roanoke or Raw
reuoke, which was made of shells, or
pieces of shells, with holes bored
through them, and strung ou buck?
skin thongs?(hey paid it out by the
arm's leugth, aud their chief artiel
ot traffic with the whites was heaver
skins. They were very poor, their
wealth was all lu nature's storehouses,
tiny bttilt none for themselves, and
lind they possessed any. they had uot
the energy, the industry, aud provi?
dence to have laid by anything In
these. Tiley li vt-il mainly on tish,
oysters and clams as piles of shells
near villages attest Yet deer, bears,
wolves, wild cats, beaver and small
g tine,were pleutiful?and iu oue place
1 hnve seen that an I nd.un sold their I
mooseskins. Game rapidly diminished I
after the arrival of the whites. When
their powder, shot aud fowling pieces
broke the stillness of the forest, and
SCut echoes reverberating from short
to shore, away fled the game, aud
away went one half of the Indians'
means of subsistence with it.
The plantation of Ac.iounc grew in
Strength until iu HUM wheu there were
iSUli persons here.
