[117] Lawson, in his _New Account of Carolina_, p. 180, says that the natives there bore in mind their traditions by means of a "Parcel of Reeds of different Lengths, with several distinct Marks, known to none but themselves." James Adair writes of the Southern Indians "They count certain very remarkable things by notched square sticks, which are distributed among the head warriors and other chieftains of different towns." _History of the Indians_, p. 75. [118] Dr Edwin James, _Narrative of John Tanner_, p. 341. [119] George Copway, _Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation_, pp 130, 131. [120] Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes_, Vol. I, p. 339. [121] Brainerd, _Life and Journal_, p. 410. [122] E. de Schweinitz, _Life and Times of Zeisberger_, p. 92. [123] _Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls_., 4th series, Vol. IX, where Captain Young's journal is printed. [124] _Heckewelder MSS_. in Amer Phil. Soc. Lib. [125] _An Account of the Conduct of the Society of Friends toward the Indian Tribes_, p. 72 (London, 1844). [126] The records of my own family furnish an example of this. My ancestor, William Brinton, arrived in the fall of 1684, and, with his wife and children, immediately took possession of a grant in the unbroken wilderness, about twenty miles from Philadelphia. A severe winter set in; their food supply was exhausted, and they would probably have perished but for the assistance of some neighboring lodges of Lenape, who provided them with food and shelter. It is, therefore, a debt of gratitude which I owe to this nation to gather its legends, its language, and its memories, so that they, "in books recorded. May, like hoarded Household words, no more depart!" [127] _A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio_, p. 25 (Cinn., 1838). I add the further testimony of John Brickell, who was a captive among them from 1791 to 1796. He speaks of them as fairly virtuous and temperate, and adds: "Honesty, bravery and hospitality are cardinal virtues among them." _Narrative of Captivity among the Delaware Indians_, in the _American Pioneer_, Vol. I, p. 48 (Cincinnati, 1844). [128] Life and Journal, p. 381. [129] "Others imagined the Sun to be the only deity, and that all things were made by him." David Brainerd, _Life and Journal_, p. 395. [130] Loskiel, _Geschichte der Mission_, p. 55. [131] David Brainerd, _Life and Journal_, pp. 395, 399. [132] D. G. Brinton, _The Myths of the New World_, chap. vi; _American Hero Myths_, chap ii. [133] Loskiel, _Geschichte der Mission_, p. 53. [134] He is thus spoken of in Campanius, _Account of New Sweden_, Book III, chap. xi. Compare my _Myths of the New World_, p. 190. [135] Brainerd, _Life and Journal_, p. 395. [136] His statements are in the _Calls of the Mass Hist Soc_, Vol. X (1st Series), p. 108. [137] Wm Strachey, _Historie of Travaile into Virginia_, p. 98. [138] Brainerd, _Life and Travels_, p. 394. [139] Charles Beatty, _Journal_, p. 44.