the Monakans, and ftimulated them to a war with the Lenopi and their confede- rates. At the fame time the Mohawks car- ried on a furious war down the Hudfon againft the Mohiccons and River Indians, and compelled them to purchafe a tempo- rary and precarious peace, by acknowledging them to be their fuperiors, and paying an annual tribute. The Lenopi being furrounded with enemies, and hard prefTed, and having loft many of their warriors, were at laft compelled to fue for peace, which was granted to them on the condition that they fhould put themfelves under the proteftion of the Mingoes, confine themfelves to raifmg corn, hunting for the fubfiftance of their famiUes, and no longer have the power of making war. This is what the Indians call making them women. And in this condition the Lenopis where when William Penn firft arrived and began the fettlement of Pennfylvania in 1682.
(6.) p. 198. From the figurative lan- guage of the Indians, as well as from the praftice of thofe we are ftill acquainted with, it is evident that it was and ftill con- tinues to be, a conftant cuftom among the Indians to gather up the bones of the dead, and depofit them in a particular place.