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 18 HISTORY OP of Naraghansett bay, Rhode Island, and a number of smaller islands in the vicinity. The Naraghansetts surpassed in civili- zation any of the neighbouring tribes. The Pequods inhabited the eastern part of Connecticut, and acted in conjunction with the Indians on the eastern extremity of Long Island. The Mohegans, or Mohicans, held their council fires in the valley of the Connecticut and upon the banks of the Hudson. The Scatacooks, or Manhattans, occupied the interior terri- tory between those rivers. They were also scattered among the Mohicans. The Lenni Lennape, occupied the greater portion of New Jersey, and in the valleys of the Delaware and Schuylkill. They are subdivided into the Minsi and the Delawares, and constituted a dependency of the Six Nations. The Nanticokes inhabited the territory around the Delaware and Chesapeake bays. The Acomacs lived on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, adjoining the Nanticokes. Some writers have given this tribe a place in the Powhattan Confederacy. The Powhattan Confederacy, comprising more than thirty different tribes, occupied the entire lowlands of Virginia, a territory of over 800 square miles.* The Monahoacks and the Monacons occupied the territory west of the Powhattan Confederacy, and together numbered as many as fifteen diff'erent tribes. The Pamlicoes, Shawnese, Miamis, Illinois, Ohios, Chippe- ways, Menomonies, Sacs, Foxes, and the Kicapoos, who occu- pied portions of the territory east of the Mississippi, all spoke the Algonquin language. The Sioux dialect was spoken principally by the Mississippi Indians. 2,500, or the total population at 8,000.
 * Mr. Jefferson computed the number of the Powhattan warriors at