th€r they go when they dye , they will tdl 
you pointing with their finger to Heaven 
beyond the white mountains^ and do hint 
at NoaFs Fioud, as may be conceived by 
a ftory they have received from Father to 
Son; time out of mind, that a great while 
agon their Countrey was drowned, and all 
the People and other Creatures in it^ only 
one Powaw zv\A his If ebb forefecing the 
Floud fled to the white mountains carrying 
a hare along with them and fo efcaped | 
after a while the Fowaw fcnt the H^re a way ^ 
who not returning cmboldned thereby 
they dcfccndcd, and lived many years after, 
and had many Children, from whom the 
Countrie was filled again with Indians. 
Some of them tell another flory of the 
Beaver^ frying that he wais their Father. 
Their learning is very little or none , 
Poets they are as may be ghelTed by their 
formal fpeeches^ fometimes an hour long, 
the laft word of a line riming with the laft 
word of the following line, and the whole 
doth Conjiare ex p€dibiisM\Ji(ic^\ too they be, 
haying riiany pretty odd barbarous tunes 
which they make ufe of vocally at marria- 
ges and feaftingsj but Inftruments they 
had none before the Englijh came amongft 
them, <ince they have imitated them and 
will make out Kitts and firing them as neat-^ 
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