20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 69 
He treats principally of the Narraganset, in whose country ‘‘a man 
shall come to many townes, some bigger, some lesser, it may be a 
dozen in 20 miles travell.” Their habitations (p. 47) were formed 
of ‘‘long poles which the men get and fix, and then the women cover 
the house with mats, and line them with embroidered mats which 
the women make, and call them Mannotaubana, or Hangings.” The 
houses were 14 to 16 feet in diameter and were occupied by two 
families. Larger structures were occupied by a greater number of 
persons, and (p. 51)— 
‘‘Most commonly there houses were open, their doore is a hanging 
Mat which being lift up, falls downe of itselfe; yet many of them get 
English boards and nails, and make artificiall doores and bolts them- 
selves, and others make slighter doores of Burch or Chesnut barke, 
which they make fast with a cord in the night time, or when they go 
out of town, and then the last (that makes fast) goes out at the 
Chimney, which is a large opening in the middle of their house, caliee | 
Wunnauchicémock.”’ 
Evidently the Narraganset did not occupy permanent villages, 
-although it may have been their custom to return and occupy certain 
sites during the same season of succeeding years, and it is interesting 
to trace their movements through the year (pp. 56—57)— 
‘‘From thick warme vallies, where they winter, they remove a 
little neerer to their Summer fields; when ’tis warme Spring, then 
they remove to their fields, where they plant Corne. In middle of 
Summer, because of the abundance of Fleas, which the dust of the 
house breeds, they will flie and remove on a sudden from one part of 
their field to a fresh place. And sometimes having fields a mile or 
two, or many miles asunder, when the worke of one field is over, 
they remove house to the other: If death fall in amongst them, they 
presently remove to a fresh place: If an enemie approach they 
remove to a Thicket, or Swampe, unless they have some fort to re- 
move unto. Sometimes they remove to a hunting house in the end 
of the yeare, and forsake it not until Snow be thick and then will 
travell, Men women and children, thorow the snow, thirtie, yea, 
fiftie or sixtie miles; but their great remove is from their Summer 
fields to warme and thicke woodie bottomes where they winter: 
. They are quicke; in halfe a day, yea, sometimes at few houres warning 
to be gone and the house is up elsewhere, especially, if they have 
stakes readie pitcht for their Mats . . . The men make the poles or 
stakes, but the women make and set up, take downe, order and carry 
the Mats and householdstuffe.”’ 
They hunted much and (p. 141)— 
‘‘They hunt by Traps of severall sorts, to which purpose after they 
have observed, in spring time and Summer, the haunt of the Deere, 
