Wauontom, a counsellor; Keenomp, a captain; Sagamore, a chief or sachem.
Is sage Canonicus.
Williams considered Canonicus, at the time he wrote his Key to the Indian Languages, about fourscore years old.
The Neyhom’s mantle did his shoulders grace.
“Neyhomaushunck, a coat or mantle curiously made of the fairest plumes of the Neyhommauog, or turkies, which commonly their old men make, and is with them as velvet with us.”—Williams’ Key.
Yes, ere he came, Pocasset’s martial band
Did at our bidding come to fight the foe,
And the tall warriors of the Nipnet land