lo* March 1749. 



write more at large about it in the fequeh 

 The Europeans are likewife ufed to collect a 

 quantity of thefe berries, to dry them in 



ens, to bake them in tarts, and to em- 

 loy them in feveral other Ways. Some 

 preferve them with treacle. They are h. re- 

 wife eaten raw, either quite alone or with 

 frefh milk. 



I shall, on the 27th of March , findoc- 

 cafion to mention another dim, which the 

 Indians ate formerly, and ftill eat, on formal 

 ceremonies. 



March the 1 8th. Almost during the 

 whole of this fpring, the weather and the 

 winds were always calm in the morning at 

 fun-iiiing. At eight o'clock the wind be- 

 gan to blow pretty hard, and continued fo 

 all day, till fun-fetting ; when it ceafed, and 

 all the night was calm. This was the re- 

 gular courfe of the weather : but fometimes 

 the winds raged, without intermiffion, for 

 two or three days together. At noon it 

 was commonly moft violent. But in the 

 ordinary way, the wind decreafed and in- 

 creafed as follows : At fix in the morning, 

 a calm ; at feven, a very gentle weftern 

 breeze, which grew flronger at eight; at 

 eleven it was much flronger ; bat at four in 

 the afternoon, it is no ftronger than it was 



at 



