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lame manner it happened fometimes, that as the 

 Swedes had a great increafe 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 fol- 

 lowed them. Some of thofe Indians got fuch 

 numbers of thefe animals, that they afterwards 

 gave them to the Swedes for a mere trifle. When 

 the Swedes arrived in America^ the Indians had 

 no domeftic animals, except 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 ga- 

 thered a great number of hiccory nuts, and wal- 

 nuts from the black walnut-trees, dried and 

 crufhed them ; 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 to- 

 bacco-pipes of clay, manufactured by.themfelves, 

 at the time that the Swedes arrived here j they 

 did not always fmoke true tobacco, but made ufe 

 of another plant inftead of it, which was un- 

 known to the old Swede, but of which he aflured 

 me that it was not the common mullein, or 

 Verbafcum Thapfus, which is generally called 

 Indian Tobacco here. 



As to their religion, the old man thought it 

 very trifling, and even believed that they had 

 none at all 3 when they heard, loud claps of 



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