Evolution of Tbotticulture 



' sweet, toothsome, and hearty * meal. 

 ' Nokehich,' parched meal, which is a 

 ready, very wholesome food, which they 

 eat with a little water, hot or cold. I 

 have travelled with near two hundred of 

 them at once, near a hundred miles 

 through the woods, every man carrying a 

 little basket of this at his back, and some- 

 times in a hollow leather girdle about 

 the middle, sufficient for a man three or 

 four days. With this ready provision, 

 and their bows and arrows, they are ready 

 for war, and travel at an hour's warning. 

 With a spoonful of this meal, and a 

 spoonful of water from the brook, have I 

 made many a good dinner and supper." 1 

 They also raised tobacco, but used it 

 only in smoking. " They generally all 

 take tobacco, and it is the only plant 

 which men labor in, the women mana- 

 ging all the rest." 2 The expression 

 "drinking smoke or drinking tobacco" 



1 Roger Williams's Key, Mass. Hist. Collect., iii. 

 p. 208. 



* Idem, chaps. II., XX. 



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