1871, under the title "The Last of the Pequods." His article is provided with a portrait of Eunice Mahwee, who, when he saw her, was "just one hundred years old," and who regarded herself as the only pure-blooded survivor of her tribe. In 1836 Eunice Mawehu contributed information about her people to J. W. Barber; but neither Barber nor Lossing says anything about her knowledge of the Indian language.2 Another Connecticut tribe, also studied by Mr. Speck, have remembered their native tongue better. In the village of Mohegan, near Norwich, live some fifty Pequots, and there are about fifty more in the adjacent towns who belong to the same group. Though all are American citizens, they still maintain the form of their old tribal government, and meet annually in the church at Mohegan, for they are sufficiently devout Congregationalists, to celebrate the ancient Green-corn Feast. Their habitual language is English, but two of the women, a Mrs. Fielding and her sister, are able to speak Pequot, and the former can write it with some fluency. In less than a generation, however, the old dialect will undoubtedly disappear, though certain words and phrases, and perhaps a sentence or two, may linger in the memory of individuals. The discoveries of Mr. Speck carry one's imagination back to the fate of the ancient Cornish tongue, which ceased to be a living language when Dolly Pentreath died in 1777.

Our discussion has led us far away from High Howder's writ as reported by Mr. Thomas, but it may be hoped

1 Reprinted by W. W. Beach, The Indian Miscellany, Albany, 1877, PP. 452 ff.

2 Connecticut Historical Collections, pp. 200, note, 471; see also Samuel Orcutt, The Indians of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Valleys, Hartford, 1882, pp. 197 ff.

8 See Speck and Prince, American Anthropologist, 1903, New Series, V, 193 ff.

See p. 333, above.

New the matter from his gra Det speak the language. He recollec -de words and three connected sentences, o next a le interpreted it "Hurry up to and get a crank or more probably, as ProfesTace z made out. Come along, my friends, and will have a drink." Either reading is significant enou may be added, since neither Mr. Speck nor Profes Prince notices the circumstance, that the late Benson Lossing visited the Skaghticoke reservation about and heldning conversation with Eunice Mahwer he Gideon Mahwee who is said to b tin 1728. Mr. Lossing contribe: to Scribner's Monthly for Oct

in, 39 ff., 43 ff., duty on, 46 f. 44 ff., 48 ff., 56 f.; Signs in, 53 ff.; miscellaneous circulated by See also Calenalendar.

mes, Bickerstaff, Browne, Carleton, Farmer's, Gadof Shepherdes, Poor Robin, Poor Raphael, Robie, man, Thomas, I., Travis, Woodward,

that our scrutiny of the literary efforts of our aboriginal predecessors has not been altogether devoid of interest. At all events, it has served to illustrate the diversity of subjects which occupied the mind of the Old Farmer and which lend character to his venerable Almanack.

INDEX

ABDY, E. S., on New England stages, | Agricultural fairs, 93.
293.

Academies, in New England, 228 ff.;
Mr. Thomas on, 228 f.; for women,
230.

Acadia, Jesuits in, 109.
Accounts, squaring, 81 f., 99 f., 316.
Adams, C. F., 172.

Adams, John, on pettifoggers, 99; on
New England institutions, 225; on
American fondness for titles, 234;
description of innkeepers, 264,
269 f.

Adams and Liberty, song, by R. T.
Paine, 149.

Addison on witchcraft, 114.

Ague cured by sympathetic remedy,
117; spiders as remedy, 119.
Air, theories about, 166 f.
Air-pump, 307.

Albany, N. Y., stage line from Boston
to, 287; so-called Telegraph Line
of stages, 296; railroad, 298 f.
Alders, clearing land of, 312.
Aldrich, T. B., on Sunday reading, 317.
Alert, of U. S. Navy, 215.
Alexander, Sir James, on Indians of
Canada, 160.
Algonquins, 359.
Allen, J., gardener, 9.

Allen, Dr. T., writing master, 5.

Advertisements, 8 f., 137, 264 f., 269, Allen, William, D.D., on Waban and

276 ff., 296 f., 315 ff.
Æschylus, 71.

Agamemnon, murder of, 71; tragedy
by Eschylus, 71.
Agamenticus, Maine, murder at, 75.
Agawam, Mass., 245.

Indian warrant, 334 f.
All-hallown summer, 193.
Almanacs, astrology in, 39 ff., 43 ff.,
53 ff., 108; stamp duty on, 46 f.;
burlesques on, 40, 44 ff., 48 ff., 56 f.;
the Man of the Signs in, 53 ff.;
Agriculture, in the United States in pictures in, 62 ff.; miscellaneous
1783, 17; improvements in, 21; ob- contents of, 71; circulated by
servations on, desired by Mr. peddlers, 139 ff. See also Calen-
Thomas, 25 f.; Roman calendar of, dar; Farmer's Calendar.
78 f.; Cato's precepts compared Almanacs: see Ames, Bickerstaff,
with Mr. Thomas's, 79 f.; pre- Billings, British, Browne, Carleton,
cepts of the Farmer's Calendar, Clough, Dekker, Farmer's, Gad-
80 ff.; kitchen gardens, 84 ff.; hired bury, Kalender of Shepherdes,
men, 85 f. 180; haymaking, 88, Partridge, Pond, Poor Robin, Poor
182 f.; tradition in, 91 f.; parsnips, Will, Rabelais, Raphael, Robie,
91 f.; cattle shows, 93; books on, Smith and Forman, Thomas, I.,
128, 141 f., 309 f., 311 ff; huskings, Thomas, R. B., Travis, Woodward,
168 ff.; changing works, 179 ff.; in- Zadkiel.
sect pests, 179, 181, 186 f.; wages, Altweibersommer, 194.
180; women as laborers, 182 f.; American Academy of Arts and
crows and corn, 189 f.; Indian sum- Sciences, 134, 152, 167, 198.
mer and the crops, 191, 198; rail- American Anthropologist, 377.
roads and, 301 f.; moon and, 305 ff. | American Antiquarian Society, 16,
See also Farmer's Almanack; Far-

337 ff.

376.

mer's Calendar; Indian corn; American Philosophical Society, 126,
Wheat.