fee a handfull of thefc firings , wherein an Indian wo- 

 man carried written a generall confefTioh of all her life, 

 and thereby confeflcd herfelfc , as well as I could have 

 done it in written paper. I asked her what thofe firings 

 meant that differed from the reft : (heaunftvered nice, 

 they were certainecircumftaunccs which the fin requi 

 red to be fully confeffed.Befide ihtfcgiftppu of thred, 

 they have an other, as it were a kindeof writing with 

 fmallftones, by meanes whereof, theylearnepun&u- 

 ally the words they defire to know by heart. It is a plea- 

 fant thing to fee the olde and the impotent ( with a 

 wheclemadeof fmallftone) learnc the Pater xtftcr. 

 with another the AVS Marti, with another the Crecde; 

 and to remember what flone fignifics,JF&^nw cwei- 

 vedbytheholy-gkojl, and which, Suffered vndcrPwtittt 

 Pilate. 



It is apleafant thing to fee them correft themfelves 

 when they doc erre for all their corre&ion confifteth 

 onely in beholdingof their fmall ftones. One of thefe 

 whiles were fufficient to make mee forget all that I do 

 knowe by heart . There arc a great number of thefe 

 ivheeles in the Church-yard es Jbr thispurpofe. Butit 

 feemcsakinde of witchcraft, to fee an other kindeof 

 4^i/^, which they make of graincsof Mays, for to 

 caft vp a hard account, wherein a good Arithmetitian 

 would be troubled with his penne to make a divifion : 

 to fee how much every one muft contribute : they do 

 dra we fb many grain es from onefide, and adde fo ma 

 ny to another,with a thouiand other inventions.Thefc 

 Indians wil take their graines,and place five of one fide, 

 three ofanother, and eight of another, and wil change 

 one graineof one fide^and three of another: So as they 

 finifi) a ccrtaine account, without ening in any poynt: 



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