400 March 1749. 



mentioned. They planted but little maize, for 

 they lived chiefly upon hunting ; and through- 

 out the greateft part of fummer, their Hopnifs or 

 the roots of the Glycine Apios> their Katnifs or 

 the roots of the Sagittaria Sagittifolia, their Taw- 

 ho or the roots of the Arum Virgin! cum, their 

 Taw-keeorOrontium aquaticum* and whortle-ber- 

 ries, Were their chief food. They had no horfes 

 or other cattle which could be fubfervient to 1 

 them in their agriculture, and therefore did all 

 the work with their own hands. After they had 

 reaped the maize, they kept it in holes under 

 ground, during winter 5 they dug thefe holes fel- 

 dorn deeper than a fathom, and often not fa 

 deep ; at the bottom and on the fides they put 

 broad pieces of bark. The Andropogon bicQrne* 

 a grafs which grows in great plenty here, and 

 which the EkgUjft call Indian Grafs, and the 

 Swedes Wiljkt Grafs * , fu p plies the wan t ofbark; 

 the ears of maize are then thrown, into the hole, 

 and covered to a confiderable thicknefs with the 

 fame grafs, and the whole is again covered by a 

 fufficient quantity of earth : the maize kept ex- 

 tremely well in thofe holes, and each Indian had 

 feveral fuch fubterraneous ilores, where his corn 

 lay fafe, though he travelled far from it. After 

 the Swedes had fettled here, and planted apple- 

 trees and peach-trees, the Indians, and efpecially 

 their women, fometimes Hole the fruit in great 

 quantity; but when the Swedes caught them, 

 they gave them a fevere drubbing, took the fruit 

 from them, and often their clothes too. In the 



* Grafs of the favager, 



fame 



