The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . MOUTH OF -WAPPINGIS CEEEK. separated from the main-land by a marsh. On this rock the Indiansperformed their peculiar semi-religious rites, called pow-wows, before goingupon hunting and fishing expeditions, or the war-path. They paintedthemselves grotesquely, built a large fire upon this rock, and dancedaround it with songs and yells, making strange contortions of face andlimbs, under the direction of their conjurors or medicine men. Theywould tumble, leap, run, and yell, when, as they said, the Devil, or EvilSpirit, would aj)pcar in the shape of a b
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . MOUTH OF -WAPPINGIS CEEEK. separated from the main-land by a marsh. On this rock the Indiansperformed their peculiar semi-religious rites, called pow-wows, before goingupon hunting and fishing expeditions, or the war-path. They paintedthemselves grotesquely, built a large fire upon this rock, and dancedaround it with songs and yells, making strange contortions of face andlimbs, under the direction of their conjurors or medicine men. Theywould tumble, leap, run, and yell, when, as they said, the Devil, or EvilSpirit, would aj)pcar in the shape of a beast of prey, or a harmless animal;the former apparition betokened evil to their proposed undertaking, and THE HUDSON. 197 the latter prophesied of good. For at least a century after the Europeansdiscovered the river, these hideous rites were performed upon this spot,and the Dutch skippers who navigated the Hudson, called the rock DenDuyvels Dans Kamer. Here it was that Peter Stuyvesants crew were* most horribly frightened by roystering dev
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