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never returned.”* The country was divided according to the stipulation; the
Iroquois making choice of the lands near the great lakes and their tributary
streams, while the Lenape occupied the region to the south. When the European
colonies arrived, the Delawares were the possessors of the southern portion of New
Jersey, and parts of the present states of Pennsylvania and Delaware. They
received the strangers with confidence and kindness, and for many years this
mutual good faith remained unbroken. The Delawares were less warlike than
the Iroquois, to whom they finally became in a manner subservient. “ In person
they were upright, and straight in their limbs, beyond the usual proportion in
most nations: their bodies were strong, but of a strength rather fitted to endure
hardship than to sustain much bodily labor; their features were regular; their
countenances sometimes fierce, in common rather resembling a Jew than a
Christian.”t
PLATE XXXIV.
LENAPÉ, OR DELAWARE.
The few Delaware skulls in my possession are more elongated than is usual
in the American tribes; they are also narrower in proportion in the parietal
diameter, and less flattened on the occiput. The annexed drawing is taken from
a skull presented by Dr. Pitcher, U. S. A., who accompanied it with the following
memorandum : “ I know this to be genuine. The country at present assigned to
the Delawares lies north of the Kanzas, between it and the Missouri river. 1 here
are some wandering bands of these proud foresters in the Cherokee country, on
the Neosho and Canadian rivers, in Arkansas. The individual whose cranium I
* IIecke welder, Historical Account, &c., p. 31.
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t Smith, Hist, of New Jersey, p. 242.