Wolves" prob-
ably the Mahican or Wappinger and the Munsee — move off to the
northeast. At last, after six more chiefs, "the whites came on the
eastern sea." by which is probably meant the landing- of the Dutch on
.Manhattan in 1609 (7). We may consider this a tally date, approxi-
mating the beginning of the seventeenth century. Two more chiefs
rule, and of the second we are told that "He fought at the south: he
fought in the land of theTalega and Koweta," and again the fourth
chief after the coming of the whites "went to the Talega." We have*
thus a traditional record of a war of conquest carried on against the
Talligewi by four successive chiefs, and a succession of about twenty-
five chiefs between the final expulsion of that tribe and the appearance
of thewhites, in which interval the Nantieoke, Shawano. .Mahican.
and Munsee branched oil' from the parent tribe of the Delawares.
Without venturing to entangle ourselves in the devious maze of Indian
chronology, it is sufficient to note that all this implies a very long period
of timt — so long, in fact, that during it several new tribes, each of
which in time developed a distinct dialect, branch off from the main
Lenape' stem. It is distinctly stated that all the Talega went south
after their final defeat: and from later references we rind that they took
refuge in the mountain country in the neighborhood of the Koweta
(the Creeks), and that Delaware war parties were still making raids
upon both these tribes long after the first appearance of the whites.
Although at first glance it might be thought that