Secondly, they have a kinde of Dice which are Plumb stones painted, which they cast in a Tray with a mighty noyse and sweating: Their publique Games are solemnized with the meeting of hundreds; sometimes thousands, and consist of many vanities, none of which I durst ever be present at, that I might not countenance and partake of their folly, after I once saw the evill of them. Ahânu, Hee laughes. Tawhitchahânean, Why doe you laugh? Ahânuock, They are merry. Nippauochâumen, We are dancing. Pauochaúog, They are playing or dancing. Pauochaútowwin, A Bable to play with. Akésuog, They are at cards, or telling of Rushes. Pissinnéganash, Their playing Rushes. } I am a telling, or counting; Ntakèsemin, } for their play is a } kind of Arithmatick. Obs: The chiefe Gamesters amongst them much desire to make their Gods side with them in their Games (as our English Gamsters so farre also acknowledge God) therefore I have seen them keepe as a precious stone a piece of Thunderbolt, which is like unto a Chrystall, which they dig out of the ground under some Tree, Thunder-Smitten, and from this stone they have an opinion of successe, and I have not heard any of these prove loosers, which I conceive may be Satans policie, and Gods’ holy Justice to harden them for their not rising higher from the Thunderbolt, to the God that sends or shoots it. Ntaquìe akésamen, I will leave play. Nchikossimúnnash, I will burne my Rushes. Wunnaugonhómmin, To play at dice in their Tray. Asaúanash, The painted Plumbstones which they throw. Puttuckquapuonck, A playing Arbour. Obs: This Arbour or Play house is made of long poles set in the Earth, four square, sixteen or twentie foot high, on which they hang great store of their stringed money, have great staking towne against towne, and two chosen out of the rest by course to play the Game at this kind of Dice in the midst of all their abettors, with great shouting and solemnity: beside, they have great meetings of foot-ball playing, onely in Summer, towne against towne, upon some broad sandy shoare, free from stones, or upon some soft heathie plot because of their naked feet at which they have great stakings, but seldome quarrell. Pasuckquakohowaûog, They meet to foot-ball.