INDIAN GAMES. 185 



H. M. Brackenridge 37 found a game among the women 

 at the Arikara village, which resembled jack-stones. 

 "Five pebbles are tossed up in [from] a small basket with 

 which they endeavor to catch them again as they fall." 



Rasles, under the heading Jouets des Enfans gives, in 

 addition to the form of "snow snake" already alluded to, 

 a game the phrases used in which he interprets as follows : 

 toupie sur la glace, etc. ; sur la terre; je la fouette. This 

 description applies to the spinning of something like a top. 

 Blind-man's-buff is also described "My eyes are blind- 

 folded and I hunt for some one." 



In Shea's "Library of American Linguistics", No. X, is 

 a republication of the radical words of the Mohawk Lan- 

 guage, etc., by Rev. James Bruyas. "Atnenha," Noyau 

 (the stone of a fruit) is given, and to a compound of the 

 word this definition is added : "to play with fruit-stones 

 as women do, throwing them with the hands." Another 

 compound is defined : "to play at platter." 



GAMBLING IN GENERAL. 



In the former paper I quoted numerous extracts from 

 authors to show the propensity of the natives for immod- 

 erate gambling. The writers who have furnished material 

 for this second paper bear similar testimony. Roger Wil- 

 liams says that in their games they would sometimes stake 

 their money, clothes, house, corn, and themselves, if single 

 persons. He adds that they then became weary of their 

 lives and ready to make way with themselves. The scene 

 which he describes in the play-arbour, the fierce frenzy of the 

 gambling spirit, and the solemn shouting of the lookers-on 

 and players, bring before us much the same scene as that 

 described by Father Lalemaut in 1639. Winslow, in his 



T Journal of a Voyage up the river Missouri, p. 149. 



