It had nearby a neighboring community in the native village of Harsimus (115), situated in the cove about the present Henderson street and 5th street, in modern Hoboken. At Castle point, the trading station of Hobokan Hackingh (116), was established a place of some importance, which by its position on the highest southerly ground along the river-front commanded the passage of trade to and from the Island of Manhattan.

By some route we may feel assured that these natives of Bergen neck, and others occupying North Bergen and the Palisade region, found their way around the Hackensack meadows to the trails from those mountain regions on which the traders from the interior tribes made their way INDIAN PATHS with the products of the chase to the marketing place at Sapohanikan. Direct progress toward the west from the stations on the bank of Hudson river along Bergen neck was barred to native travel by the extensive swamp-land that extended around the head of Newark bay for about sixteen miles inland to Hackensack.