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found, as towards tlie mountains, tliej make lin-* 

 tels of tlie bark of cypress beaten, wliicL serve as 

 well. Thus tliey go and fire the woods for many 

 miles, and drive tlie deer and other game into small 

 necks of land and isthmuses where they kill and 

 destroy what they please. In these hunting quar- 

 ters they have their wives and ladies of the camp, 

 where they eat all the fruits and dainties of that 

 countiy, and live in all the mirth and jolhty which 

 it is possible for such people to entertain them- 

 selves withaL Here it is that they get their com- 

 pliment of deer skins and furs to trade with the 

 English, (the deer skins being in season in winter 

 which is contrary to England.) All small game, 

 asturkies, ducks and small vermine, they common- 

 ly kill with bow and arrow, thinking it not worth 

 throwing powder and shot after them. Of tur= 

 kies they have abundance, especially in oak land, 

 as most of it is that lies any distance backwards, 

 I have been often in their hunting quarters where a 

 roasted or barbacued turkey, eaten with bear's fat, 

 is held a good dish, and indeed I approve of itve- 

 ry well ; for the bear's grease is the sweetest and 

 least offensive to the stomach, as I said 'before, of 

 any fat of animals I ever tasted. '-The savage men 

 never beat their corn to make bread, but that is 

 the women's work, especially the girls, of whom 

 you shall see four beating with long great pestils 

 in a narrow wooden mortar ; and every one keeps 

 her stroke so exactly, that tis worthy of admira- 

 tion. Their cookery continues from morning till 



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