186 INDIAN GAMES. 



" Good Newes from England," 38 says "they use gaming as 

 much as anywhere and will play away all, even their skin 

 from their backs, yea their wives' skin also, though it may 

 be they are many miles distant from them, as I myself have 

 seen." 



Wood in his "New England's Prospect," 39 besides fur- 

 nishing the curious descriptions of games which were used 

 by Ogilby, also dwells in another place, upon the propen- 

 sity of the najtives with whom he came in contact, for 

 gaming. "They are so bewitched," he says, "with these 

 two games, that they will lose sometimes all they have, 

 beaver, moose-skins, kettles, wampompeage, mowhackies, 

 hatchets, knives, all is confiscate by these two games." 



Daniel Gookin, 40 writing at a later period, adds his tes- 

 timony as to gambling among the New England Indians 

 in the following words : " They are addicted to gaming ; 

 and will, in that vein, play away all they have." 



METHODS OF COUNT. 



The examination of Indian vocabularies has disclosed 

 several new points concerning the methods of counting 

 the several games. 



According to Rasles, the count was sometimes kept by 

 thrusting sticks in the ground. In case of loss, the sticks 

 were removed. This is shown by Indian words used in 

 the games which Rasles interprets respectively : "I thrust 



88 Good Newes from New England ; or a true Relation of things very remarkable at 

 the Plantation of Plimouth in New England, London, 1024 reprinted in Chronicles 

 of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony ol Plymouth, etc., by Alexander Young, sec- 

 ond edition, Boston, 1844, p. 307. Purchas gives an abbreviation of Good Newes, 

 etc., in his Pilgrimes, Vol. iv, Lib. x, Chap. 5. The quotation will be found p. 1859. 

 See also on this point, Morton's New English Canaan, published at Amsterdam, 

 1637, and reprinted by the Prince Society, Charles Francis Adams, jr., Editor, 

 Boston, 1883, p. 138. 



"New England's Prospect, Part n, Ch. 14. 



10 Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, etc., by Daniel Gookin. 

 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society lor the year 1792, Vol. I, p. 

 153. 



