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that are very pleasant, and a little tartish ; young 

 wasps, when they are white in the combs, before 

 they can fly, this is esteemed a dainty ; all sorts of 

 tortois and terebins, shell fish, and stingray, or 

 scate, dried ; gourds, melons, cucumbers, squash- 

 es, pulse of all sorts ; rockahomine meal, which is 

 their maiz, parched and pounded into powder ; 

 fowl, of all sorts that are eatable ; ground nuts, or 

 wild potatos ; acorns and acorn oil, wild bulls, beef, 

 mutton, pork, &c., from the English ; Indian corn, 

 or maiz, made into several sorts of bread ; ears of 

 corn roasted in the summer, or preserved against 

 winter. 



The victuals is common throughout the whole 

 kindred relations, and often to the whole town, 

 especially when they are in hunting quarters, then 

 they all fare alike, whichsoever of them kills the 

 game. They are very kind and charitable to one 

 another, but more especially to those of their own 

 nation ; for if any one of them has suffered any loss, 

 by fire, or otherwise, they order the grieved person 

 to make a feast, and invite them all thereto, which, 

 on the day appointed, they come to, and after ev- 

 ery man's mess of victuals is dealt to him, one of 

 their speakers, or grave old men, makes an har- 

 rangue, and acquaints the company that that man's 

 house has been burnt, wherein all his goods were 

 destroyed ; that he and his family very narrowly 

 escaped; that he is every man's friend in that 

 company ; and that it is all their duties to help him, 

 as he would do to any of them had the like misfor- 



