In regard to Gorges, see Belknap’s _American Biography_; Folsom’s _Catalogue of Original Documents in the English Archives relating to the Early History of the State of Maine_; Williamson’s _Maine_; Palfrey’s _New England_ (vol. i.); Poole’s Introduction to Johnson’s _Wonder Working Providence_; Devereux’s _Earls of Essex_ (vol. i.); and the _Briefe Narration_ (III. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. vi. p. 44), and Gorges’s own letters, to Winthrop and others, in the _Winthrop Papers_. (IV. _Mass. Hist. Coll._, vol. vii.)
[211] These are the Inner Harbor (Boston), so called, and Dorchester, Quincy, and Weymouth bays. The latter includes all the inlets south and west of Nut and Pettuck’s islands and Hull, among which is Hingham Bay.
[212] “Sleetch, _n._ The thick mud or slush lying at the bottom of rivers.” _Webster._
[213] [iland.] See _supra_, 111, _note_ 1.
[215] In the letter already quoted from (_Supra_, 14), Mr. J. H. Trumbull remarked that “Morton, as he shows in chap. ii. of book I., could not write the most simple Indian word without a blunder.” As respects the words which Morton believed to be Indian-Greek, Mr. Trumbull has further kindly furnished the following notes: “_En animia_--_Wunanumau_, as Eliot wrote it, signifies ‘he is well disposed, or well minded toward another,’ or ‘is pleased with’ him. There is another word, nearly related, which Morton may have had in mind, meaning ‘to help,’ ‘do a favor to,’--_aninumeh_, ‘help me’ (Eliot), _anúnime_ (R. Williams).”
[216] “_Paskanontam_ (Eliot), ‘he suffers from hunger,’ ‘is starving.’ In Eliot’s orthography, _paskuppoo_ would signify ‘he eats hungrily,’ or ‘as if starving,’ and from this comes the verbal _Paskup-wen_ or _Paskuppoo-en_ ‘a starving eater’--Morton’s ‘greedy gut.’”
[217] “Eliot’s _paskanontam_, as above, which is well enough translated by ‘halfe starved.’”
[218] “I can make nothing of these words. They certainly do _not_ mean ‘set it upright.’”
[220] “Here Morton mistook the word. _Cos_ is, probably, _Koüs_ (Eliot), ‘sharp-pointed,’ or, from the same root, _mukqs_, (Eliot), _mucks_ (R. Williams), ‘an awl,’ used for boring wampum, beads, &c.; _cau-ompsk_ (R. Williams) was ‘a whetstone,’ _i. e._, a sharpening stone.”