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the contents in it — that the same was handed them by
the Mannitto in order that they should drink it as he
himself had done before them — that this would please
him; but that to return it might provoke hini and be
the cause of their being destroyed by him. He then took1
the glass and bidding the assembly a farewell, drank it
up. Every eye was fixed on their resolute companion tq
see what an effect this would have upon him and he soon
beginning to stagger about and at last dropping to the
ground they bemoan him. He falls into a sleep and they
saw him as expiring. He awakes again, jumps up and
declares that he never felt himself before so happy as
after he had drank the cup. Wishes for more. His wish
is granted and the whole assembly soon join him and
become intoxicated.

The Delawares, as the missionary points out
further, call New York Island "Mannahattamk,,",
*'the place where we were all drunk." With this
picturesque account let us contrast the curt state-
ment of Robert Juet: "This morning at our first
rode in the River there came eight and twenty
canoes full of men, women and children to betray
us; but we saw their intent and suffered none of
them to come aboord of us. At * twelve of the
clocke they departed. They brought with .them
oysters and beanes whereof we bought some;'' • If
there had been any such striking scene as* the mis-
sionary's chronicle reports, Juet would "probably