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first voyage, 1534, found that the Indians near the mouth of 

 that river on the Bay of Gaspe had abundance of maize, and 

 had " beans (febues) which they name ' Sahu,' " or (as spelled 

 in the vocabulary printed with his Discourse du Voyage) 

 " Sahe." 1 The " Bref Recit " of his second voyage, 1535-36, 

 mentions the use of corn and beans by the Indians of the St. 

 Lawrence — " bled & febues & poix, desquels ilz out assez " 

 (f. 24). 



Father Sagard in his " History of Canada " and in the ac- 

 count of his journey to the country of the Hurons, 1025, men- 

 tions the cultivation and use of " fezoUes " by the Indians. 

 The Hurons used in their succotash (" neintahouy ") "a third 

 or a quarter part of their fezoles, called ogaressa " (Grand 

 Voyage, 83, 138). 



Lescarbot, 1608, says that the Indians of Maine, like those 

 of Virginia and Florida, plant their corn in hills, " and be- 

 tween the kernels of corn they plant beans marked (feves 

 riolees) with various colors, which are very delicate ; these, 

 because they are not so high as the corn, grow very well 

 among it " (Hist. Nouv. France, ed. 1612, p. 835 ; see also 

 p. 744). 



The relation of the voyage of Captains Amadas and Barlow 

 to Virginia, 1584, mentions pease, melons, etc., at Roanoke 

 Island, but does not name beans ; but Harriot, who accom- 

 panied them on this voyage, includes both " Wickonzour, 

 called by us pease," and " Okindjier, called by us beans," 

 among the productions of that country. Capt. John Smith, 

 who was in Virginia in 1007, and Strachey, who was there in 

 1010, describe (in nearly the same words) the Indian manner 

 of planting corn and beans : " they plant also pease they call 

 assentamens, which are the same they call in Italy fagioli : 

 their beans are the same the Turks call garvances, but these 

 they much esteem for dainties " (Smith's Gen. Hist., 28 ; 

 Strachey, Trav. in Virginia, 117). Evidently, these names 



^ The langtiage spoken by these Indians was a dialect of the Huron- 

 Iroquois group, and we trace the name sahe (as Carticr caught it) in the 

 Mohawk osa Ae-^a, " fdsoles " of Bruyas (17tli century), and the Onondaga 

 ousahcta and husahhla, " poix, feve " (Shea's Onondaga Dictionary). 



