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the Swedes brewed beer of the fruit. The old 

 man could not tell from whence thfr Swedes firft 

 of all got the peach-trees. 



DURING the younger years of this old man, 

 the Indians were every where fpread in the coun- 

 try ; they lived among the Swedes, and were fcat- 

 tered every where. The old man mentioned 

 Swedes who had been killed by the Indians-, and 

 he mentioned two of his countrymen who had 

 been fcalped by them. They ftole children from 

 the Swedes, and carried them off, and they were 

 never heard of again. Once they came and killed 

 ibme Swedes, and took the upper part of their 

 fculls with them ; on that occafion they fcalped 

 a little girl, and would have killed her, if they 

 had not perceived a boat full of Swedes, making 

 towards them, which obliged them to fly; the 

 girl was afterwards healed, but never got any 

 hair on her head again : me was married, had 

 many children, and lived to a confiderable age. 

 At another time the Indians attempted to kill 

 the mother of this old man, but (he vigoroufly 

 reiifted them, and in the mean while a number 

 of Swedes came up, who frightened the Indians^ 

 and made them run away. Nobody could ever 

 find out to what nation of Indians thefe owe 

 their origin ; for in general they lived very peace- 

 ably with the Swedes. 



THE Indians had their little plantations of 

 maize in many places ; before the Swedes came 

 into this country, the Indians had no other than 

 their hatchets made of ftone. In order to make 

 maize plantations they cut out the trees and pre- 

 pared the ground in the manner I have before 

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