CHAP. VII.

Of their Persons and parts of Body.

Uppaquóntup,The head.
Nuppaquóntup,My head.
Wésheck,The hayre.
Wuchechepúnnock,A great bunch of hayre
bound up behind.
Múppacuck,A long locke.

Obs. Yet some cut their haire round, and some as low and as short as the sober English; yet I never saw any so to forget nature it selfe in such excessive length and monstrous fashion, as to the shame of the English Nation, I now (with grief) see my Countrey-men in England are degenerated unto.

Wuttip, The Braine.—Obs. In the braine their opinion is, that the soule (of which we shall speake in the Chapter of Religion) keeps her chiefe seat and residence:

For the temper of the braine in quick apprehensions and accurate judgements (to say no more) the most high and soveraign God and Creator, hath not made them inferiour to Europeans.

The Mauquaûogs, or Men-eaters that live two or three hundred miles West from us, make a delicious monstrous dish of the head and brains of their enemies; which yet is no barre (when the time shall approach) against Gods call and their repentance and who knowes (but) a greater love to the Lord Jesus? great sinners forgiven love much.

Mscáttuck,The fore-head.
Wuskeésuck-quash,Eye, or eyes.
Tiyùsh kusskeésuckquash?Can you not see or where
are your eyes?
Wuchaûn,The nostrills.
Wuttóvwog, quàsh,Eare, eares
Wuttòne,The mouth.
Wéenat,The tongue.
Wépit-teash,Tooth, teeth.
Pummaumpiteùnck,The tooth-ake.

Obs: Which is the onely paine will force their stout hearts to cry; I cannot heare of any disease of the stone amongst them (the corne of the Countrey, with which they are fed from the wombe, being an admirable cleanser and opener:) but the paine of their womens child birth (of which I shall speake afterward in the Chapter of Marriage) never forces their women so to cry, as I have heard some of their Men in this paine.