[FN-1] "_Meteauhock,_ the Periwinkle of which they made their wampum." (Williams.) "Perhaps derived from _Mehtauog,_ 'Ear-shaped,' with the generic suffix _hock_ (_hogki, hackee_), 'shell.'" (Trumbull.) [FN-2] _Wompompeag_ is another form quoted as Mohegan, from which _Wompum._ "_Wompom,_ which signifies white." (Roger Williams.) [FN-3] _Seahwhoog,_ "they are scattered." (Eliot.) "From this word the Dutch traders gave the name of _Sewan,_ or _Zeawand,_ to all shell money; just as the English called all _Peag,_ or strung beads, by the name of the white, _Wampum._" (Trumbull.) [FN-4] An interpretation of _Paumanack_ as indicating a people especially under tribute, is erroneous. The belts which they made were in universal use among the nations as an offering, the white belts denoting good, as peace, friendship, etc., the black, the reverse. The ruling sachem, or peace-chief, was the keeper and interpreter of the belts of his nation, and his place sometimes took its name from that fact. That several of the sachems did sign their names, or that their names were signed by some one for them, "Sachem of Pammananuck," proves nothing in regard to the application of that name to the island. Wompenanit is of record as the name of "the utmost end eastward" of the Montauk Peninsula. The description reads: "From the utmost end of the neck eastward, called Wompenanit, to our utmost bound westward, called Napeake." (Deed of July 11, 1661.) In other papers Wompenonot and Wompenomon, corrupted orthographies. The meaning is "The utmost end eastward," _i. e._ from the east side of Napeake to the extreme end. The derivatives are Nar. _Wompan_ (from _Wompi,_ white, bright), "It is full daylight, bright day," hence the Orient, the East, the place of light, and _-anit,_ "To be more than," extending beyond the ordinary limit. The same word appears in _Wompanánd,_ "The Eastern God" (Williams), the deity of light. From _Wompi,_ also _Wapan_ in _Wapanachkik,_ "Those of the eastern region," now written _Abanaqui_ and _Abnaki,_ and confined to the remnant of a tribe in Maine. (See Wahamanesing,) Dr. Trumbull wrote: "_Anit,_ the subjunctive participle of a verb which signifies 'To be more than,' 'to surpass'"; with impersonal _M_ prefixed, _Manit,_ as in _Manitou,_ a name given by the Indians, writes Lahontan, "To all that passes their understanding"; hence interpreted by Europeans, "God." It has no such meaning in _Wompenanit,_ but defined a limit that was "more than," or the extreme limits of the island. No doubt, however, the Indians saw, as do visitors of to-day, at the utmost end of the Montauk Peninsula, in its breast of rock against which the ocean-waves dash with fearful force; its glittering sun-light and in its general features, a _Wompanánd,_ or Eastern God, that which was "more than ordinary, wonderful, surpassing," but those features are not referred to in _Wompenanit,_ except, perhaps,