1 1 6 March 1749. 



happened fometimes that as the Swedes had 

 a great ericreafe of hogs, and they ran about 

 in the woods, the Indians killed fome of 

 them privately and feafted upon them : but 

 there were likewife fome Indians who 

 bought hogs of the Swedes and fed them -, 

 they taught them to run after them like 

 dogs, and whenever they removed from one 

 place to another, their hogs always follow- 

 ed them. Some cf thofe Indians got fuch 

 numbers of thefe animals, that they after- 

 wards gave them to the Swedes for a mere 

 trifle. When the Swedes arrived in America, 

 the Indians had no domeftic animals, ex- 

 cept a fpecies of little dogs. The Indians 

 were extremely fond of milk, and ate it 

 with pleafure when the Swedes gave it them. 

 They likewife prepared a kind of liquor 

 like milk in the following manner : they 

 gathered a great number of hiccory nuts 

 and walnuts from the black walnut-trees, 

 dried andcrufhed them 5 then they took out 

 the kernels, pounded them fo fine as flour, 

 and mixed this flour with water, which 

 took a milky hue from them, and was as 

 fweet as milk. They had tobacco-pipes of 

 clay, manufactured by themfelves, at the 

 time that the Swedes arrived here ; they did 

 not always fmoke true tobacco, but made 

 »fe of another plant inftead of it, which 



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