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themselves in running after a flat stone which they throw 

 in the air from one end of the square to the other, and 

 which they try to have fall on two cylinders that they roll 

 where they think the stone will fall." 78 Adair gives the 

 following description of the same game : "The warriors 

 have another favorite game, called 'ckungke', which, with 

 propriety of language may be called 'Running hard labour.' 

 They have near their state house 79 a square piece of ground 

 well cleaned, and fine sand is carefully strewed over it, 

 when requisite, to promote a swifter motion to what they 

 throw along the surface. Only one or two on a side play 

 at this ancient game. They have a stone about two fingers 

 broad at the edge and two spans round ; each party has a 

 pole of about eight feet long, smooth, and tapering at each 

 end, the points flat. They set off abreast of each other at 

 six yards from the end of the playground ; then one of 

 them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he 

 can, a considerable distance toward the middle of the other 

 end of the square. When they have run a few yards, each 

 darts his pole anointed with bears' oil, with a proper force, 

 as near as he can guess in proportion to the motion of the 

 stone, that the end may lie close to the stone. When this 

 is the case, the person counts two of the game, and, in pro- 

 portion to the nearness of the poles to the mark, one is 

 counted, unless by measuring, both are found to be at an 

 equal distance from the stoue. In this manner, the play- 

 ers will keep running most part of the day, at half speed, 

 under the violent heat of the sun, staking their silver or- 

 naments, their nose-, finger- and ear-rings ; their breast-, 

 arm- and wrist-plates, and even all their wearing apparel, 

 except that which barely covers their middle. All the 



*8 Shea's Early Voyages, Albany, 1861, p. 143. 



Consult E. G. Squier. Aboriginal Monuments of N. Y., Smithsonian Contri- 

 butions to Knowledge, Vol. n, pp. 135-6 and note p. 136. 



