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then it is a delicious difh for them ; or 

 frem milk and bread ; or boiled or roafted 

 fiem. They fometimes make ufe of but-r 

 ter-milk inftead of frefh milk, to boil a thin 

 kind of porridge with, which taites very- 

 four, but not difagreeable in hot weather. 

 To each dinner they have a great fallad, 

 prepared with abundance of vinegar, and 

 very little or no oil. They frequently eat 

 butter-milk, bread, and faliad, one mouth- 

 ful after another. Their fupper is generally 

 bread and butter, and milk and bread. They 

 fometimes eat cheefe at breakfaft, and at 

 dinner ; it is not in flices, but fcraped or 

 rafped, fo as to refemble coarfe flour, 

 which they pretend adds to the good tafte 

 of cheefe. They commonly drink very 

 fmall beer, or pure water. 



The governor of New Tork often confers 

 at Albany y with the Indians of the Five Na- 

 tions, or the Iroquefe, (Mohawks, Senekas^ 

 Cayugaws, Oncndagoes, and Onidoes) efpe- 

 cially when they intend either to make 

 war upon, or to continue a war againft. 

 the French. Sometimes their deliberations 

 likewife turn upon their converlion to the 

 chriftian religion, and it appears by the an- 

 fwer of one of the Indian chiefs, or Sa- 

 chems, to governor Hunter, at a conference 

 in this town, that the Englijb do not pay 



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