thrice ; that ** not one of thefe generations were then ' living except himfelf ; that he muft foon ^ die, and the fucceffion defcend in order ^ to his brother Opichapan, Opechanca- *^ nough, and Catataugh, and then to his ** two fifters, and their two daughters.'' But thefe were appellations defignating the tribes in the confederacy. For the perfons named are not his real brothers, but the chiefs of different tribes. Accordingly in l6i8, when Powhatan died, he was fuc- ceeded by Opichapan, and after his deceafe Opechancanough became chief of the nation. I need only mention another inftance to (hew that the chiefs of the tribes claimed this kindred with the head of the nation.
In 1622, when Raleigh Crafhaw was with * This is one generation more than the poet afcribes to the life of Neftor. To d' ede duo men geneai meropo anthrdpdn Ephthiath oi oi profthen ama traphen ed' egneonto En Pulo cgathee, meta de tritatoifin anaflen, z HoM. II. 2501. Two generations now had pafled away, Wife by his rules, and happy by his fway ; Two ages o'er his native realm he reign'd, And now th' example of the third remain'd. Vofs.^ 3F Japazaw, the Sachem or chief of the Pa- tomaes, Opechancanough, who had great power and influence, being the fecond man in the nation, and next in fucceffion to Opichapan, and who was a bitter but fe- cret enemy to the Enghfh, and wanted to engage his nation in a war with them, fent two bafkets of beads to the Patomac chief, and defired him to kill the Englifhman that was with him. Japazaw replied, that the Englifli were his friends, and Opichapan his brother, and that therefore there fhould be no blood (lied between them by his means. It is alfo to be obferved, that when the Engliih firft came over, in all thtir conferences with any of the chiefs, they conllantly heard him make mention of his brother^ with whom he mull: coufult, or to whom he referred them, meaning thereby either the chief of the nation, or the tribes in confederacy. The Mana- hoacks are faid to have been a confederacy of four tribes, and in alliance with the Mo- nacans, in the war which they were carrying on againfl the Powhatans.