Their Language, is onely peculiar to themselves, not inclining to any of the more refined Tongues. Some have thought they might be of the dispersed _Jews_, because some of their words are near unto the _Hebrew_; but by the same rule they may conclude them to be some of the gleanings of all Nations, because they have words which sound after the _Greek_, _Latine_, _French_, and other Tongues. Their Language is hard to learn, few of the _English_ being able to speak any of it, or capable of the right pronunciation, which is the chief grace of their Tongue: They pronounce much after the Diphthongs, excluding _L_ and _R_ which in our _English_ Tongue they pronounce with as much difficulty, as most of the _Dutch_ do _T_ and _H_, calling a Lobster a _Nobstann_. Every Countrey doth something differ in their Speech, even as our Northern People do from the Southern, and Western from them; especially the _Tarrentine_, whose Tongue runs so much upon _R_ that they wharle much in pronunciation. When any Ships come near the Shore, they demand whether they are King _Charles’s Torries_, with such a rumbling sound, as if one were beating on an unbrac’d Drum. In serious Discourse our Southern _Indians_ use seldom any short Colloquies, but speak their minds at large, without any interjected Discourses from any, the rest giving diligent audience to his utterance; which done, some or other returns him as long an Answer: They love not to speak _multa, sed multum_; seldom are their words and their deeds strangers. According to the matter of their discourse, so are their acting Gestures in their Expressions. [Sidenote: Of their Deaths, Burials and Mourning.]