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I. Of Salutation,[27]
II. Of Eating and Entertainment,[33]
III. Of Sleepe,[38]
IV. Of their Numbers,[41]
V. Of Relations of consanguinity, &c. [44]
VI. Of House, Family, &c. [47]
VII. Of parts of body,[58]
VIII. Of Discourse and Newes,[62]
IX. Of time of the day,[67]
X. Of Seasons of the Yeere,[69]
XI. Of Travell,[72]
XII. Of the heavenly Lights,[79]
XIII. Of the Weather,[81]
XIV. Of the Winds,[83]
XV. Of Fowle,[85]
XVI. Of the Earth and Fruits thereof,[89]
XVII. Of Beasts and Cattell,[95]
XVIII. Of the Sea,[98]
XIX. Of Fish and Fishing,[102]
XX. Of their Nakednesse and clothing,[106]
XXI. Of their Religion, Soule, &c. [109]
XXII. Of their Government,[120]
XXIII. Of their Marriages,[124]
XXIV. Of their Coyne,[123]
XXV. Of their Trading,[133]
XXVI. Of their Debts and Trusting,[139]
XXVII. Of their Hunting,[141]
XXVIII. Of their sports and Gaming,[145]
XXIX. Of their Warres,[148]
XXX. Of their Paintings,[154]
XXXI. Of their sicknesse,[156]
XXXII. Of their Death and Buriall,[160]

I have further treated of these Natives of New-England, and that great point of their Conversion in a little additionall Discourse apart from this.


I have read over these thirty Chapters of the American Language, to me wholly unknowne, and the Observations, these I conceive inoffensive; and that the Worke may conduce to the happy end intended by the Author.

Io. LANGLEY.

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