Mahican track and casinos, private interests and other tribes opposed the deal. James Fenimore Cooper based his novel, "The Last of the Mohicans", on the Mahican tribe. His description includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan, a different Algonquian tribe that lived in eastern Connecticut. Cooper set his novel in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but used some Mohegan names for his characters, such as Uncas. The novel has been adapted for the cinema more than a dozen times, the first time in 1920. Michael Mann directed a 1992 adaptation, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as a Mohican-adopted white man. Mahican The
USS Fenimore Cooper (1853) passages between Batavia and Singapore and from Java northward to the South China Sea until June 1854, when she rejoined the flagship at Hong Kong. Through that summer, the expedition cruised the coast of China, joining the East India Squadron in protecting American interests. Returning to its surveys in September 1854, the squadron sailed northward to Petropavlovsk, where the ships separated. "Vincennes" penetrated the Arctic, while "Fenimore Cooper" searched the Aleutians unsuccessfully for information concerning the fate of the men of the whaler "Monongahela", missing since 1853. Returning to the United States, "Fenimore Cooper" called at Sitka, Alaska, then Russian