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kind, having a red circle about tlieir eyes, like 

 some pigeons that I have seen, a top-not reach- 

 ing from the crown of their heads almost to the 

 middle of their backs, and abundance of feathers 

 of pretty shades and colors, they proved excellent 

 meat. Likewise here is good store of woodcocks, 

 not so big as those in England, the feathers of the 

 breast being of a carnation color, exceeding ours 

 for delicacy of food. The marble here is of differ- 

 ent colors, some or other of the rocks represent- 

 ing most mixtures, but chiefly the white having 

 black and blue veins in it, and some that are red. 

 This day we met with seven heaps of stones, be- 

 ing the monuments of seven Indians that were 

 slain in that place by the Sinnagers or Troquois. 

 Our Indian guide added a stone to each heap. 

 We took up our lodgings near a brook side, where 

 the Virginia man's horses got away and went back 

 to the Kadapaus. 



This day one of our company, with a Sapona 

 Indian, who attended Stewart, went back for the 

 horses. In the mean time, we went to shoot pi- 

 geons which were so numerous in these parts that 

 you might see many millions in a flock; they 

 sometimes split off the limbs of stout oaks and oth- 

 er trees upon which they roost of nights. You 

 may find several Indian towns of not above seven- 

 teen houses, that have more than one hundred gal- 

 lons of pigeon's oil or fat ; they using it with pulse 

 or bread as we do butter, and making the ground 

 as white as a sheet with their dung. The Lidians 



