[435] “The French call the Maques, _les Aniuez_, the Oneydes, _les Onoyants_, the Onondagas, _les Montagneurs_, ... the Caiougas, _les Petuneurs_, the Senegues, _les Paisans_.”—Observations of Wenworth Greenhalgh in a journey from Albany to ye Indyans westward. 1677. London documents in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y. vol. iii. p. 167. [436] “This region is called by the peasants (_paesani_) Norumbega.”—Raccolta di navigationi e viaggi. Ramusio. vol. iii. fol. 353. “_Quando per sua buona uentura intese da paesani, che erano giunto alla marina alcuni nauiglia._” “Here by good luck he heard from the _natives_ that some boats had arrived off the coast.”—Dello Scoprimento dell’ Isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engronelanda, Estotilanda, & Icaria, fatto per due fratelli Zeni.—_Vide_ Voyages of the Venetian brothers. Major. p. 24. [437] Nieuwe Wereldt. Door Johannes de Laet. Tot Leyden. 1625. boek. iii. cap. ix. [438] Novus Orbis, seu descriptionis Indiæ Occidentalis, autore Joanne de Laet. Antuerpiensi, 1633. lib. iii. cap. vii. When the island in 1625 was purchased from the Manants by the agents of the Dutch West India Company, the transaction is spoken of in a letter addressed to their high mightinesses, the Lords States General of the United Netherlands, as follows: “Our people have bought the island Manhattes from the Wilden (wild men) for the value of sixty guilders [about twenty-four dollars].”—Holland documents, in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y. vol. i. p. 155. [439] Historische Verhael door Nicolaes à Wassenaer. Amsterdam. 1621-1632. deel vi. fol. 144. [440] Nieuwe Wereldt. boeck. iii. cap. ix. Novus Orbis. lib. iii. cap. ix. [441] Korte historial ende journals. Door David Pietersz. de Vries. Hoorn, 1655. pp. 146, 151. [442] New York Colonial MSS. xxxv. Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer, describing in 1632 the coast of America in the vicinity of St. John’s River, New Brunswick, writes: “I was at four islands near the river St. John.... Farther west there are other islands, one of which extends six leagues, which is called by the savages, _Menane_.” Opposite this word, Champlain writes on the marginal space, “_L’isle de Manthane_,” adding a _t_ and an _h_ to the second syllable of the words.—Les voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr. de Champlain, Sanctongeois. Paris, 1632. chap. ii. p. 58.