_For they were gone to Potowomet’s fires._ The words _Note_ or _Yote_ signified fire; _Potowash_, to make fire; _Wame_ signified all, and _Et_ is a termination denoting place. If this be so, it would seem that Potowamet, signified the place of all the fires, or places where all the tribes assembled and kindled their council or festal fires. The shell-fish, in which the shores of Potowomet abound, and the numerous remains of Indian feasts found on the upland, offer additional proof of the correctness of this inference. CANTO FOURTH. STANZA II. _There bristled darts--there glittered lances sheen._ Lances were arms which distinguished their sachems and other leaders. At this early period the Indians had scarcely become familiarized to the use of fire-arms. The French and Dutch had indeed begun to supply them with these strange implements of death; but the English colonists had taken every precaution to prevent their being furnished with them. There were, however, no restraints on the trade of knives, hatchets, lances, &c. STANZA XX. _On settles raised around the mounting blaze Sit gray Wauontom, Keenomp, Sagamore._ Wauontom, a counsellor; Keenomp, a captain; Sagamore, a chief or sachem. _Is sage Canonicus._ Williams considered Canonicus, at the time he wrote his Key to the Indian Languages, about fourscore years old. STANZA XXI. _The Neyhom’s mantle did his shoulders grace._ “Neyhomaushunck, a coat or mantle curiously made of the fairest plumes of the Neyhommauog, or turkies, which commonly their old men make, and is with them as velvet with us.”--_Williams’ Key._ STANZA XXXIII. _Yes, ere he came, Pocasset’s martial band Did at our bidding come to fight the foe, And the tall warriors of the Nipnet land Rushed with soft foot to bend our battle bow; And e’en the dog of Haup did cringing stand Beside our wigwam, and his tribute show._