We say Anum}
Nipmuck, Alum} A Dog.”
Northern, Arum}
See Mass. Hist. Coll. iii. 223, xix. 248.
[78] “When they are sick, their misery appears, that they have not, but what sometimes they get from the English, a raisin or currant, or any physic, fruit, or spice, or any comfort more than their corn and water, &c. In which bleeding case, wanting all means of recovery or present refreshing, I have been constrained, to and beyond my power, to refresh them, and to save many of them from death, who I am confident perish many millions of them, in that mighty continent, for want of means.” Roger Williams, in Mass. Hist. Coll. iii. 236.
[79] The same as pinse. See [page 13].
[80] Sokones, or Succonusset, now called Falmouth.
[81] Or Agawam, part of Wareham.
[82] Martha’s Vineyard.
[83] “Maskit, give me some physic.” Roger Williams’s Key, in R. I. Hist. Coll. i. 159.
[84] “Ketan is their good God, to whom they sacrifice after their garners be full with a good crop. Upon this God likewise they invocate for fair weather, for rain in time of drought, and for the recovery of their sick.” Wood’s New England’s Prospect, part ii. ch. 12.
[Chapter 5] (pp. 40-52)