[48] Ibid. [49] Ibid. [50] Ibid. [51] Ibid.; Wood, pp. 99-100. [52] Williams, pp. 188-193; Winslow, p. 362. [53] Williams, pp. 188-93. [54] Ibid., Wood, pp. 99-100. [55] Williams, pp. 188-93. [56] Wood, pp. 99-100. [57] “... it being the custome of the Indians to burne wood in November when the grass is withered, and leaves dryed.”; Wood, p. 17. “The Salvages are accustomed to set fire of the Country in all places where they come, and to burne it twize a yeare, viz. at the Spring and the fall of the leafe”; Morton, p. 172. [58] Wood, p. 101. [59] Bradford, I, p. 168; D. S. Byers, “The Environment of the Northeast”, MAN IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA, Frederick Johnson, ed. (Andover, 1946), p. 25; Williams, p. 136. [60] turbot, halibut, plaice, flounder. [61] resembles a smelt. [62] Champlain in Howe, pp. 110-115; Gookin, p. 150. It is not really possible to tell which of these fish were in most frequent use; bass seems to be the most mentioned by writers on tribes in the area. Josselyn lists the following as favorites of the Indians: striped bass, sturgeon, salmon, eels and lamphreys and frostfish. Since he does not tell the specific groups he was writing about and since his home was to the north of our area of concern, it is not certain that this list is representative of the preferences of Indians in the Plymouth area; Bennett, pp. 385-86. MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 196, 205; Williams, pp. 136-37, 142; Wood, pp. 100-102. [63] Byers, p. 26. [64] Bennett, pp. 385-86. [65] “Of their fishing, in this trade they be very expert, being experienced in the knowledge of all baites, fitting sundry baites for the severall fishes, and diverse seasons; being not ignorant likewise of the removall of fishes, knowing when to fish in rivers, and when at rocks, when in Baies, and when at seas....”; Wood, p. 100. [66] Champlain in Howe, pp. 110-115; Wood, pp. 100-101, 107. [67] Champlain in Howe, pp. 110-115; Wood, p. 107. [68] Wood, p. 107. [69] Williams, p. 142; Wood, pp. 100-101. [70] Wood, pp. 100-102. [71] Williams, p. 137. [72] MOURT’S RELATION, p. 205. One technique, found among the 19th century descendants of the Wampanoags, was: “Fish wiers were built in shallow water with nets having notched stone sinkers tied to them for anchorage.”; Speck and Dexter, p. 264. [73] Williams, p. 137. [74] Wood, pp. 100-101. [75] MOURT’S RELATION, p. 196. [76] Bradford, I, p. 162. There is no information as to the role of the dog in Wampanoag culture. [77] Wood, p. 94. [78] MOURT’S RELATION, p. 133; Willoughby, p. 296. [79] Martin Pring’s Narrative in Howe, pp. 72-73. [80] Ibid.; Willoughby, p. 296. [81] Williams, p. 123; Wood, p. 106. [82] Williams, p. 114. [83] Ibid., p. 117. [84] Willoughby, pp. 297-98. [85] Wood, p. 106. [86] Champlain in Howe, p. 130.