has not yet come again.
My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of Unamis happy
and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the
last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans."

FOOTNOTES:

[1] As each nation of the Indians had either its language or its
dialect, they usually gave different names to the same places, though
nearly all of their appellations were descriptive of the object. Thus, a
literal translation of the name of this beautiful sheet of water, used
by the tribe that dwelt on its banks would be "The Tail of the Lake."
Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and now indeed legally called, forms a
sort of tail to Lake Champlain, when viewed on the map. Hence the name.

[2] Washington: who, after uselessly admonishing the European general of
the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the remnants of
the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The
reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause
of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day. It
is a circumstance worthy of observation, that, while all America rang
with his well-merited reputation, his name does not occur in any
European account of the battle; at least, the author has searched for it
without success. In this manner does the mother country absorb even the
fame, under that system of rule.

[3] There existed for a long time a confederation among the Indian
tribes which occupied the northwestern part of the colony of New York,
which was at first known as the "Five Nations." At a later day it
admitted another tribe, when the appellation was changed to that of the
"Six Nations." The original confederation consisted of the Mohawks, the
Oneidas, the Senecas, the Cayugas, and the Onondagas. The sixth tribe
was the Tuscaroras. There are remnants of all these people still living
on lands secured to them by the State; but they are daily disappearing,
either by deaths or by removals to scenes more congenial to their
habits. In a short time there will be no remains of these extraordinary
people, in those regions in which they dwelt for centuries, but their
names. The State of New York has counties named after all of them but
the Mohawks and the Tuscaroras. The second river of that State is called
the Mohawk.

[4] In the State of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narragansett, so
named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on