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described by observers among the Abenakis. Ogilby 54 

 says: "Hubbub is five small Bones in a small Tray; the 

 Bones be like a Die, but something flatter, black on the 

 one side and white on the other, which they place on 

 the Ground, against which violently thumping the Platter, 

 the Bones mount, changing Colour with the windy whisking 

 of their Hands to and fro ; which action in that sport they 

 much use, smiting themselves on the Breasts and Thighs, 

 crying out Hub Hub Hub ; they may be heard playing at 

 this game a quarter of a mile off. The Bones being all 

 black or white make a double Game ; if three of one 

 colour, and two of another, then they afford but a single 

 game ; four of a colour and one differing is nothing. So 

 long as the Man wins he keeps the Tray, but if he lose 

 the next Man takes it." 



There is but little said about this game in the south by 

 writers. It evidentlv had no such hold there as among 1 



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the Hurons and the tribes along the Lakes. Lawson 55 saw 

 it played in North Carolina with persimmon stones as 

 dice. While this fixes the fact that the game had a home 

 among the southern Indians, the way in which it has been 

 slighted by the majority of writers who treat of that sec- 

 tion shows that it was not a favorite game there. 



To what shall we ascribe this ? Its hold upon the north- 

 ern Indians shows that it was peculiarly adapted to the 

 temperament of the natives, and we should naturally ex- 

 pect to find it as much in use among the tribes of the 

 south as with those of the north. An explanation for 

 this may possibly be found in the difference of the cli- 

 mate. The game was especially adapted for the winter, 

 and while its practice was evidently not exclusively con- 



* America, being an Accurate Description of the New World, etc. Collected 

 and Translated by John Ogilby. London, 1670. Book n, Ch. 11, p. 155. 

 65 History of North Carolina by Jolin Lawson, London, 1718, p. 176. 



