2Z4 TRAVELS through 



. As to their inflruments of agriculture, they 

 only made ufe of the bones of animals, or of 

 fpades of a very hard wood. The ground 

 throughout America is very fruitful ; the grafs 

 there grows high and clofe ; and after the froft 

 has dried it up, the Indians fet fire to it ; then 

 they dig the ground with their fpades, fow it, 

 and reap three months after their crops. 



They plant maize, millet, beans, and other 

 leguminous plants, potatoes, piftachios, and 

 water-melons ; gourds are likewife very common 

 there, and the French inhabitants call them gi- 

 romonds. 



Their kitchen-utenfils were difhes and pots of 

 earthen ware, and deep wooden difhes. They 

 made cups of calebafhes, and fpoons * of the: 

 horns of wild oxen, which they cut through the 

 middle, and form into the proper fhape by 

 means of fire. 



As foon as we fhall have got ready the provi-» 

 fions for our voyage, and for the garrifon of the 

 fort, we fhall fet out, M. Auhert and myfelf in 

 a boat armed with foldiers and Mobile Indians, 



whon\ 



* Which they call Micouens, 



