If, and as Artificially as the beft Fiddfe^ 
mikcr smongil us ^ and will play our plain \ 
lelTons veiy exidly : the only Fidler that 
was in the Province of Mep , when I 
was there, was an Indian called Scc^wa}\ 
whom the Fifhermcn and planters y^^heo 
they had a mind to be merry made ufcof. 
Aiichmetick they skill not, reckoning to 
ten upon their fingers, and if nnore doub- 
ling of it by holding their fingers up, their 
?ge they reckon by Moons^ and their a<Sti- 
qns by llecps, as, if they go a journie, or 
are to do any other butinefs they will fay, 
sthree lletps me walk, or two or three 
llceps me do fuch a thing, that is in two ow 
ihjtc days . Alironomie too they hav^c no ■ . 
knowledge of, feidom or never taking ob- 
fervation of the Stars, Eclipfcs, or Comets 
that I could perceive 5 but they will Prog- 
noiticate ihrewdly what -weather will fall 
put. They are generally cKctlknt Zenagogms 
or guides through their Countric. 
Their exerciiesare hunting and fifhing, 
in both chey will take abundance of pains. 
When the Inow will bear them, the young' 
^nd luftie Indiansy / leaving their pgpoufes 
and old people at home ) go forth to hunt 
MoofeMeere^ Bear and Beaver^ Thirty or 
forty miks up into the Countrey; when they 
light upan a Mo;)fe^^ they rua him down, 
. whi'^h 
