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sorts of Bread, Ears of Corn roasted in the Summer, and 

 preserved against Winter. Ground-Nuts, or Wild Potatoes, 

 Oil of Acorns and Wild Pigeons, which they make use of 

 as we do Butter, and several other things that are to be met 

 with in great plenty amongst them. They eat young Wasps 

 when they are white in the Combs, before they can fly, which 

 is esteemed a very great dainty amongst them, as likewise 

 Gourds, Meltons, Cucumbers, Squashes, Semhlens, and 

 Pulse of all sorts. Tho' their Grounds be very fertile and 

 able to produce much more than they do; yet they are con- 

 tented to live upon a little, and what small quantity of 

 Indian-Corn they have is brought forth by the Industry of 

 their Wives, who instead of Ploughs (of which they have 

 none, nor Creatures fit for tillage) cultivate and dig the 

 Ground with Wooden Spades and Hoes made after their 

 own Fashion, the Men's minds being wholly taken up in 

 Hunting, especially till they are about 50 Years of Age. 



The Yictvxils are common throughout the whole kindred 

 and relations, and often to the whole Town, and especially 

 when they are in their Hunting Quarters, then they all fare 

 alike, there being little or no distinction observed amongst 

 them in their eating. It is very strange to see in all the 

 Places where they have been formerly settled, or had their 

 Towns near the Salt Waters, what vast quantities of Oyster- 

 shells are to be met with on the Banks of the Rivers, in such 

 heaps, that it is surprizing to behold them: One might 

 reasonably imagine (by such great quantities as are there) 

 that they scarce lived upon any thing else, or that they must 

 have been settled many hundred Years in one Place, which 

 is not common amongst them, being a People always shift- 

 ing from one place to another, as their Fancies lead them. 



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