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bargain. I think young people are getting too saucy now, for they must 
do a great deal of talking before they can get married.” 
“Indian corn,” said my Abenaki friend, “was once grown to a great 
extent on Savage Island ; when the grain was ripe the corn on the cob 
was hung up to dry in the wigwams, and when dry enough was removed 
from the cob and placed in baskets, which were set away for winter use; 
when used it was sometimes boiled whole, and at others cracked by hand 
between two stones, after it had been cracked it was put in a pot and 
boiled with sturgeon or salmon roes until it was very soft, this food was 
eaten out of wooden bowls with wooden spoons. After the corn was 
cracked it was called Nsabon. Before making this boiled food, the hulls 
had been removed by boiling the corn in lye, after which it was washed in 
pure water. The boiled food was called Qunosk-ke-te-ga-ne Nsabon, in 
English, boiled corn pudding. Augh-Pa-Hac was a famous place for 
salmon and sturgeon in old times, they were caught in July, the roes 
were saved and hung up in the sun to dry, they were afterwards smoked. 
When dry enough they were rubbed by hand so that the eggs separated, 
the product was then put in birch bark boxes and hung up in the wig- 
wam.” Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, mentions that when ascending 
the St. John, he found the Abenakis of Medoctet, or Meductic, cultivating 
pumpkins, corn and beans. Medoctet was a famous Indian encampment, 
it was situated on the west side of the St. John ona rich flat, a short 
distance above the mouth of Eel River, and it was this river that the 
Abenakis ascended when they made their raids on Massachusetts. There 
was another Abenaki village on the Saint John River, just below 
Edmundston, the northern terminus of the eastern division of the 
Canadian Pacific Railway. The Recollets had a mission at Augh-Pa- 
Hac in 1620, and in 1696, Father Simon, the missionary at that place, 
sent down forty of his Neophytes to aid De Villebon in his defence of 
Fort Naxoat, situated at the mouth of the River Nashwaak, and nearly 
opposite Fredericton, at the time when that fort was attacked by the 
New Englanders, who were always ready to harry and annoy either 
French or Indians. This disposition was no doubt the cause of the 
Abenaki emigration to the province of Quebec. The first that we hear 
of them in that province was in the year 1637, when some of them came 
to Quebec to buy beaver skins. Evincing an intention of ascending the 
St. Lawrence still further, they were forbidden by a Montagnais chief, 
but notwithstanding this they went as far as Three Rivers, in order to 
trade with the Algonquins. The Montagnais chief complained against 
them to the governor M. De Montmagny, representing to him that these 
Indians had come to Canada in order to buy beaver skins to carry to the 
English. The wigwams of the Abenakis were visited, and the articles 
