The Indians Laugh'd At Me, And Told Me,
That Enoe-Will Had Taken A Cock Of An Indian That Was Not At Home,
And The Fowl Was Design'd For Another Use.
I conjectur'd,
that he was design'd for an Offering to their God, who, they say,
hurts them, (which is the Devil.) In this Struggling, he bled afresh,
and there issued out of his Body more Blood than commonly
such Creatures afford.
Notwithstanding all this, we cook'd him, and eat him;
and if he was design'd for him, cheated the Devil. The Indians keep
many Cocks, but seldom above one Hen, using very often such wicked Sacrifices,
as I mistrusted this Fowl was design'd for.
Our Guide and Landlord Enoe-Will was of the best and most agreeable Temper
that ever I met with in an Indian, being always ready
to serve the English, not out of Gain, but real Affection;
which makes him apprehensive of being poison'd by some wicked Indians,
and was therefore very earnest with me, to promise him to revenge his Death,
if it should so happen. He brought some of his chief Men into his Cabin,
and 2 of them having a Drum, and a Rattle, sung by us, as we lay in Bed,
and struck up their Musick to serenade and welcome us to their Town.
And tho' at last, we fell asleep, yet they continu'd their Consort
till Morning. These Indians are fortify'd in, as the former,
and are much addicted to a Sport they call Chenco, which is carry'd on
with a Staff and a Bowl made of Stone, which they trundle upon a smooth Place,
like a Bowling-Green, made for that Purpose, as I have mention'd before.
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