Lenapes

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

arboreal in their habits, and make short ferous aps), or flying leaps from tree to tree, the meme mamm gonquin tribes 1 delta. brane acting like a parachute in supwhich about the porting them during their flight or leap through the air. century occupied LENA They are fruit-eaters, aps), or ware and Schuylkill but also prey upon insects and birds. ing to tradition, gonquin They are nocturnal in habits; and when and valor, exerting which al at rest suspend themselves from trees by century d over the ware and Hudson to the ing to t ence they upheld and valor Iroquois power, over the ency and in a Hudson to ence. They soon ence they the banks of the Aronnois they are found ency and ing on the ence. The came exposed to the banks Iroquois and the regarded their they ar having been ng on the peace and non ame expOB Zinzendorf), roquois and egarded th French influence aving beer fended at their eace and their crops and nzendorf), In 1778 they made rench influ the United States oded at the latter agreed eir crops a protection, which 1778 they McIntosh. In United St with the Wyandots RING-TAILED LEMUR latter agr western tribes, in tection, w the limbs, the body and head being penof Fort Grenville Entosh. I dent. The mammary glands are four in strengthened by the Wya number and are placed on the breast. Wayne, in 1803, tern tribes All other Quadrumana possess only two and the frontiers Fort Grene The most familiar species is the movement mammæ. the Galeopithecus volitans of Java and ngthened They gradually the neighboring islands. It measures ne, in 1808 for a time at the fronti afterward crossing about 20 inches in length. movement ally settled on gradually LENA, a river of Eastern Siberia, riscultivating the time at W ing amid the mountains on the N. W. etc., and dressing ward cros shore of Lake Baikal, in the government civilized costume of Irkutsk, flows first N. E. to the town mettled on ing in trust for ating the s of Yakutsk, where it is 61½ miles wide, They were then N. to the Arctic Ocean, into which reservation in and dressi it falls by several mouths, forming a They were later ed ecstume delta 250 miles wide. Its course is 3,000 trust for Cherokees. miles in length, the area of its basin were re