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or four hundred paces long, which is covered on both sides 

 with great trees." Is it not probable that this refers to a 

 plot of ground prepared for the game of chunkee ? In the 

 previous paper I have quoted a number of descriptions of 

 chunkee grounds which resemble this. In these descrip- 

 tions the grounds were spoken of as, "a fine level square ;" 

 "a square piece ground well cleaned and fine sand is strewed 

 over it ;" "an alley of about two hundred feet in length," 

 etc. No chunkee ground is described as being four hun- 

 dred paces in length, but distances are not, as a rule, ac- 

 curately stated by early writers. It seems to me probable 

 therefore that Laudonniere's "great alley" was the village 

 chunkee ground. 



Major Stephen H. Long 22 describes dice, and hoop and 

 stick among the Omahas, in the account which he pub- 

 lished of his expedition to the Rocky Mountains. He says 

 hoop and pole was played among the Pawnees on a 

 smooth beaten path. The pole had a crook at the end and 

 the aim of the player was to slide the pole after the hoop 

 so that when it fell the hoop should be caught by the hook. 



Major Pike, 23 in 1810, published an account of his ex- 

 pedition to New Mexico and of his exploration of the sources 

 of the Mississippi. He mentions two forms of hoop and 

 pole among the Pawnees which differ from any that have 

 been described. In the first a small leather ring was held 

 by thongs within a larger circle, the outer being four feet 

 in diameter. The attempt was made to check the hoop 

 while it was in motion and pierce the central ring with a 



"Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, etc., un- 

 der command of Stephen H. Long. Philadelphia, 1823. Vol. I, p. 444. 



M Pike's New Mexico, etc., was published in 1810. It was translated into French 

 and published at Paris in 1812, under title Voyage an Nouveau-Mexique, etc., par 

 le Major Z. M. Pike. See Vol. n. p. 278 of translation, where the game of "Plate, 

 of which many travellers have written" is also mentioned. In the original, see 

 part II, pp. 15 and 10. The third game is here called "La Platte." 



