INDIAN GAMES. 173 



Although Long mentions but oiie goal, it is evidentth a 

 he is describlng the ordiiuiry garae. His account Covers 

 merely the action of one side and omits allmention 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 ordhiarily played, mak- 

 ing aliowances for the inexact way in which a man whose 

 life has been mainly spent in the woods, would naturally 

 express hhiiself vvhen committing his thoughts to paper/ 



PLATTER OR DICE. 



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

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

 by the Compiler from Wood's " New England^s Prospect."^ 

 Governor riiitchhison^'^ availed himself of the same work 

 in describing games among the Massachusetts Indians. 

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

 niöhes another account of these games, somewhat similar 

 in its curious style of language and contaiuing an interest- 



7 Major Z. M. Pike in "An Account of Expedition to the Sources of the MissiS' 

 sippi," Phihulel[)hia, 1810, describes a game of cross between the Sioux, and the 

 Pnants and Reynards, Vol. l, p. lüO. 



8 America, belüg an Accurate Descriptiou of the New World, etc. Collected 

 and trauslaled by John Ogilby, London, 1(370. 



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

 Prince Society, Boston, 18()5. See p. 9B. 



»" The llistory of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, etc., by Mr. Hutchinson, 

 Lieutenant-Governor, etc. The Second Edition, London, 17(55, p. 470. 



1' AKey into the Language of America, etc., together with l>rief Observations of 

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

 London, KUS. Rcprinted in the coDections of the Massacliusetts Historical So- 

 ciety for the year 17'J4. Vol. lil, p. 234. In tiüs reprint tlie Key is somewhat 

 abridged. Reprinted in füll in tlie Collections of tiie Rhode Island Historical So- 

 ciety, Vol. I, Providence, 1827. Reprinted also in füll by the Narragansett Club, in 

 Vol. I of their publications, Providence, 18G6. This edition was published under 

 the supervision of Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, who carefully eliminatcd tiie errors 

 of the other reprints and added greatly to the valueof the work by copious unno- 

 tat ions. 



