268 June 1749. 



then it is a delicious dim for them ; or 

 frefh milk and bread ; or boiled or roafted 

 flefh. They fometimes make ufe of but- 

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

 kind of porridge with, which taftes 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 fallad, one mouth- 

 ful after another. Their fupper is generally 

 bread and butter, and milk and bread. They 

 fometimes eat cheefe at brcakfaft, and at 

 dinner j it is not in flices, but fcraped or 

 rafped, fo as to referable 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 York often confers 

 at Albany, with the Indians of the Five Na- 

 tions, or the Iroquefe, (Mohawks, Senekas, 

 Cayugau-Sy Onondagots, and Onidoctj 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 converfion 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 Englifi do not pay 



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