Cukkúmmote wepe, You steale; as I have often told them in their gamings, and in their great losings when they have staked and lost their money, clothes, house, corne, and themselves (if single persons) they will confesse it being weary of their lives, and ready to make away themselves, like many an English Man: an Embleme of the horrour of conscience, which all poore sinners walk in at last, when they see what wofull games they have played in their life, and now find themselves eternall Beggars. Keesaqúnnamun, Another kind of solemne, publike meeting, wherein they lie under the trees, in a kinde of Religious observation, and have a mixture of Devotions and sports: But their chiefest Idoll of all for sport and game, is (if their land be at peace) toward Harvest, when they set up a long house called Qunnekamuck, which signifies Long house, sometimes an hundred sometimes two hundred foot long, upon a plaine neere the Court (which they call Kitteickaûick) where many thousands, men and Women meet, where he that goes in danceth in the sight of all the rest; and is prepared with money, coats, small breeches, Knives, or what hee is able to reach to, and gives these things away to the Poore, who yet must particularly beg and say, Cowequetúmmous, that is, I beseech you: which word, (although there is not one common beggar amongst them) yet they will often use when their richest amongst them would fain obtain ought by gift. _Generall Observations of their Sports._ This life is a short minute, eternitie followes. On the improvement or disimprovement of his short minute, depends a joyfull or dreadfull eternity; yet (which I tremble to thinke of) how cheape is this invaluable jewell, and how many vaine inventions and foolish pastimes have the sonnes of men in all parts of the world found out, to passe time and post over this short minute of life, untill, like some pleasant River, they have past into _mare mortuum_, the dead sea of eternall lamentation. More particular. Our English Gamesters scorne to stake Their clothes as Indians do, Nor yet themselves, alas, yet both Stake soules and lose them too. O fearfull Games! the divell stakes But Strawes, and Toyes and Trash, (For what is All, compar’d with Christ, But Dogs meat and Swines wash?) Man stakes his Jewell-darling soule, (His owne most wretched foe) Ventures, and loseth all in sport At one most dreadfull throw. CHAP. XXIX. _Of their Warre, &c._ Aquène, Peace. Nanoúeshin, & A peaceable calme; for Awêpu, Awépu signifies a calme. Chèpewess, &, A Nothern storme of warre, Mishittâshin, as they wittily speake, and which England now wofully, feeles, untill the Lord Jesus chide the winds, and rebuke the raging seas. Nummusqâuntum, I am angry.