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was in common use among the early 

 colonial writers. It was probably derived 

 from the practice, still followed in some 

 nations, of inhaling the smoke. The 

 vegetable food from the culture of the 

 soil was eked out by various nuts, acorns, 

 roots, and berries, gathered from the 

 forest, and the ground-nut, a poor sub- 

 stitute for the potato, which grew wild. 

 Their only domesticated animal was a 

 species of native dog of low degree. 



Into the conditions which have thus 

 been briefly noticed, the Mayflower, after 

 a lengthened voyage, brought its com- 

 pany, dropping her anchor in the safe 

 harbor at the extremity of Cape Cod, now 

 the roadstead of Provincetown, November 

 II, 1620. The events which attended the 

 various explorations made from the ship, 

 in search of a suitable locality for their 

 plantation, are interesting, and have 

 special reference to their future success 

 in colonization. " The building of log 

 hovels, the turning of sand-heaps into 

 corn-fields, dealings with stupid Indians, 

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