[31] Lacombe,âpé _Dictionnaire de la Langue des Cris_, s. v. In Delaware the root takes the form _pach_, from which are derived, by suffixes, the words _pach-at_, to split, _pachgeechen_, where the road branches off, _pachshican_, a knife = something that divides, etc.
[32] _Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam_, p. 63. (Edition of the Md. Hist. Soc. 1874.)
[33] See his _Journal_, published in Neill's _Founders of Maryland_ (Albany, 1876). Fleet was a prisoner among the Pascatoways for five years, and served as an interpreter to Calvert's colony.
[34] _Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam_, p. 84. The Rev. Mr. Kampman, at one time Moravian missionary among the Delawares, told me that even with the modern aids of grammars, dictionaries and educated native instructors, it is considered to require five years to obtain a sufficient knowledge of their language to preach in it. The slowness of the early Maryland priests to master its intricacies, therefore, need not surprise us.
[35] "Omni vero ratione placare conantur phantasticum quemdam spiritum quem Ochre nominant, ut ne noceat." _Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam_, p. 40.
[36] Bozman, _History of Maryland_, Vol. I, p. 166.
[37] "The Nanticokes and Conoys are now one nation." _Minutes of the Provincial Council of Penna._, 1759, Vol. VIII, p. 176.
[38] On this tribe see "The Shawnees and Their Migrations," by Dr. D. G. Brinton, in the _American Historical Magazine_, 1866; M. F. Force, _Some Early Notices of the Indians of Ohio_, Cincinnati, 1879.
[39] See _Colonial History of New York_, Vol. IV. Index. Loskiel, _Geschichte der Mission_, etc., p. 25.
[40] These names are as given by John Johnston, Indian agent, in 1819. _Archæologia Americana_, Vol. I, p. 275. Heckewelder says they had four divisions, but mentions only two, the _Pecuwési_ and _Woketamósi_. (MSS. in Lib. Am. Philos. Soc.)
[41] "That branch of Shawanos which had settled part in Pennsylvania and part in New England were of the tribe of Shawanos then and ever since called _Pi'coweu_ or _Pe'koweu_, and after emigrating to the westward settled on and near the Scioto river, where, to this day, the extensive flats go under the name of 'Pickoway Plains.'" Heckewelder MSS. in Lib. Am. Phil. Soc.