- NORTHERN OCEAN. 
fides this, they have feveral other methods of 
preparing their food, fuch as roafting it by a 
ftring, broiling it, &c.; but thefe need on farther 
-defcription. 
- The moft remarkable difh among them, as well 
as all the other tribes of Indians in thofe parts, 
both Northern and Southern, is blood mixed 
with the half-digefted food which is found in the 
 deer’s ftomach or paunch, and boiled up with a 
fufficient quantity of water, to make it of the 
confiftence of peafe-pottage. Some fat and fcraps 
of tender flefh are alfo fhred fmall and boiled 
with it. To render this difh more palatable, 
they have a method of mixing the blood with 
the contents of the ftomach in the paunch itfelf, 
and hanging it up in the heat and fmoke of the 
fire for feveral days; which puts the whole mafs 
into a ftate of fermentation, and gives it fuch an 
agreeable acid tafte, that were it not for prejudice, 
it might be eaten by thofe who have the niceft 
palates. It is true, fome people with delicate 
ftomachs would not be eafily perfuaded to partake 
of this difh, efpecially if they faw it drefled; for 
moft of the fat which is boiled in itis firft chew- 
ed by the men and boys, in order to break the 
globules that contain the fat; by which means 
it all boils out, and mixes with the broth: where- 
as, if it were permitted to remainas it came from 
the knife, it would {till be in lumps, like fuet. 
To dojuftice, however, to their cleanlinefs in this 
particular, I muft obferve, that they are very 
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