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a food, which the hrft tafte would hive rejected 

 asufeleis. This Taw- bo feems to be the fame 

 with what the Indian* in Carolina call Tucka/joo. 



TAW-KEE is another plant, fo called by the 

 Indians, who eat it. Some of them call it Taw- 

 kim, and others Tackviw. The Swedes call it al- 

 ways by the name of Taw-kee. The plant grows 

 in marmes, near moift and low grounds, and is 

 very plentiful in North America. The cattle, 

 hogs, and flags, are very fond of the leaves in 

 fpring ; for they are feme of the earlieft. The 

 leaves are broad, like thole of the Convatlaria, 

 or Lilly of the Valley, green on the upper fide, 

 and covered with very minute hair, fo that they 

 looked like a fine velvet. The Indians pluck 

 the feeds, and keep them for eating. They can- 

 not be eaten fre(h or raw, but muft be dried. 

 The Indians were forced to boil them repeatedly 

 in water, before they were fit for life ; and then 

 they ate them like peafe. When the Swedes gave 

 them butter or milk, they boiled or broiled the 

 foeds in it. Sometimes they employ thefe feeds 

 inftead of bread -, and they tafte like peafe. Some 

 of the Swedes likewile ate them ; and the old 

 men among them told me, they liked this food 

 better than any of the other plants which the 

 Indians formerly made ufe of. This Taw-kee. was 

 the Orontinm aquaiicitm. 



BILBERRIES were likewifc a very common 

 dilh among the Indians. They are called Hue- 

 kle-bcrries by the Engli/h here, and belong to 

 feveral fpeciesof V actinium, which are all of them 

 different from our Swedifa bilberry-bum, though 

 their berries, in regard to colour, fliape, and tafte, 



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