INDIAN GAMES. 173 



Although Long mentions but one goal, it is evident tha 

 he is describing the ordinary game. His account covers 

 merely the action of one side and omits all mention of op- 

 position, except that the play of the parties was said to be 

 to intercept each other. Apparently both sides were in- 

 tent upon driving the ball into the same goal ; but the con- 

 fusion of the account is removed if we interpret it as an 

 attempt to describe the game as ordinarily played, mak- 

 ing allowances for the inexact way in which a man whose 

 life has been mainly spent in the woods, would naturally 

 express himself when committing his thoughts to paper. 7 



PLATTER OR DICE. 



The quaint descriptions of dice, foot-ball, etc., quoted 

 from the pages of Ogilby, 8 in the former article were taken 

 by the compiler from Wood's " New England's Prospect." 9 

 Governor Hutchinson 10 availed himself of the same work 

 in describing games among the Massachusetts Indians. 

 Roger Williams in his "Key into the Language, etc.," 11 fur- 

 nishes another account of these games, somewhat similar 

 in its curious style of language and containing an interest- 



"> Major Z. M. Pike in "An Account of Expedition to the Sources of the Missis- 

 sippi," Philadelphia, 1810, describes a game of cross between the Sioux, and the 

 Puants and Reynards, Vol. I, p. 100. 



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

 and translated by John Ogilby, London, 1670. 



William Wood's New England's Prospect. London, 1634. Reprinted by the 

 Prince Society, Boston, 1865. See p. 9(5. 



The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, etc., by Mr. Hutchinson, 

 Lieutenant-Governor, etc. The Second Edition, London, 1765, p. 470. 



11 A Key into the Language of America, etc., together with brief Observations of 

 the Customes, Manners, etc., by Roger Williams of Providence in New England. 

 London, 1643. Reprinted in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical So- 

 ciety for the year 1794. Vol. in, p. 234. In this reprint the Key is somewhat 

 abridged. Reprinted in full in the Collections of the Rhode Island Historical So- 

 ciety, Vol. i, Providence, 1827. Reprinted also in full by the Narragansett Club, in 

 Vol. I of their publications, Providence, 1866. This edition was published under 

 the supervision ef Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, who carefully eliminated the errors 

 of the other reprints and added greatly to the value of the work by copious anno- 

 t at ions. 



