human
Lenape-wihituck, or the
gpt
meaning
human
or, as sometimes translated, the
gpt
the name of the aboriginal confederation that dwelt upon its banks. It had various other names, for when the Swedes came, the Indians about the bay called it
human
Pantoxet. In an early deed to William Penn it is called
gpt
Mackeriskickon, and in another document the
human
Zunikoway. Some of the tribes up the river named it
gpt
Kithanue, meaning the
human
as distinguished from its tributaries, and those on the upper waters called it the
gpt
Lemasepose, or the
human
Fish River, for the Upper Delaware was then a famous salmon stream, and its early Dutch explorers thus came to calling it the
gpt
Fish River