A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.Williams, Roger
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A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.
Williams, Roger
Narragansett Indians; Narragansett language
Napannetashaúmscat, 5 pence.
Quttatashaúmscat, or quttauatu, 6 pence.
Enadatashaúmscat, 7 pence.
Shwoasuck tashaúmscat, 8 pence.
Paskugittashaúmscat, 9 pence.
Piuckquaúmscat, 10 pence.
Piuckquaúmscatnabnaqùit, 11 pence.
Piuck quamúscat nabnées, &c. 12 pence.
Obs: This they call Neén, which is two of their Quáttuatues, or six
pence.
Piuckquaúmscat nabnashoàsuck, 18d. 3 quttáuatues.
which they call Shwìn.
Neesneecheckaúmscat nab yòh, or, 2s. 4 quttáuatues.
yowin,
Shwinchékaúmscat, or napannetashin, 2s. 6d. 5 quttáuatues.
Shwinchekaúmscat, 2s. 6d. 6 quttáuatues.
Yow innchekaúmscat nab neèse, 3s. 6d. 7 quttáuatues.
Yowinncheckaúmscat nabnashòasuck, 4s. 8 quttáuatues.
Napannetashwincheckáumscat nab yòh, 4s. 6d. 9 quttáuatues.
Quttatashincheck aumscat, or more 5s. 10 quttáuatues
commonly used Puickquat, or 10 six pences.
Obs: This Piúckquat being sixtie pence, they call Nquittómpeg, or
Nquitnishcaûsu, that is, one fathom, 5 shillings.
This one fathom of this their stringed money, now worth of the
English but five shillings (sometimes more) some few yeeres since
was worth nine, and sometimes ten shillings per Fathome: the fall is
occasioned by the fall of Beaver in England. The Natives are very
impatient, when for English commodities they pay so much more of
their money, and not understanding the cause of it; and many say the
English cheat and deceive them, though I have laboured to make them
understand the reason of it.
Neesaumpaúgatuck, 10 shil. 2 Fathom.
Shwaumpáugatuck, 15 shil. 3 Fathom.
Yowompáugatuck, &c. 20 shil. 4 Fathom
Piuckquampáugatuck, or, 50 shil. 10 Fathom.
Nquit pàusck,
Neespausuckquompáugatuck, 5 lib’ 20 Fathome.
Shwepaûsuck, Yowe paûsuck, &c. 30 Fathome.
Nquittemittannauganompáugatuck, 40 Fathome, or, 10 pounds.
Tashincheckompaúgatuck? How many Fathom?
Obs: Their white they call Wompam (which signifies white): their
black Suckauhock (Sácki signifying blacke.)
Both amongst themselves, as also the English and Dutch, the blacke
peny is two pence white; the blacke fathom double, or, two fathom of
white.
Wepekuttassamompatimmin, Change my money.
Suckaúhock nausakésachick, The blacke money.
Wauômpeg, or Wauompésichick-mèsim, Give me white.
Assawompatittea, Come, let us change.
Anâwsuck, Shells.
Meteaûhock, The Periwinckle.
Suckauanaûsuck, The blacke shells.
Suckauaskéesaquash, The blacke eyes, or,
that part of the shel-fish called Poquaûhock (or Hens) broken out
neere the eyes, of which they make the blacke.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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