0?3) 
W?ird will be according to Ben JobfffoKi 
pioverbs. Whittle to a Jade and he will pay 
you with i fart.Qaw a churl by the biitch 
arid (bit in yoijr fift. 
The people that inhabited this Countrcy 
are judged (o be of tbc Tartars called Sa^ 
moniis tbat border upon Mofcovia^ and are 
divided into Tribes , thofc to the Eaft and 
Noith-caft are called CWciE?£r/ and "Taren^. 
tims^ ind Monhegans* To the South are the 
Tequeis and Narraganfets. Wcftward Caj^- 
neliicmj Movfhackj. To the Northward 
Ahcrgimans which confitt of Mattachufas^ 
[ ff^ippanaps znd "tarrenitnes* The Focamksis 
live to the Weft ward of P/imf?«//?.Not long 
before the E//g///fe caine injto ,the Countrey, 
happened a great mortality amongft them, 
cfpccially whcrc: the 'S.nglijh altciv^rards 
planted, the Eaft and Northern parts were 
forefmitten with the Contagion > fiift by 
the plague, afterwards when the Englijh 
can)e by the fmaii pox, the three Kingdoms 
or Sagamorjhips of the Mattachnftis vfttt 
very populous, having under them feven 
Dukedoms or ^cni- SagamorJhipSj but by 
the plague were brought horn 3Q00Qta 
300. There are not many now to the Eaft4 
ward, the Ffg«^^ J were deftroyed by the 
Eiiglijh : the Movfhachs are about five hun« 
drcd : Their fpeech a dialed of the !fir- 
