Note 98 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study
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“Their spits are no other than cloven sticks sharped at one end to thrust into the ground; onto these cloven sticks they thrust the flesh or fish they would have rosted, behemming a round fire with a dozen of spits at a time, turning them as they see occasion.”; Wood, p. 75.