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liiirlit. The liuntino; makes tliem hiin<>:rv, and 

 the Indians are a people that always eat very of- 

 ten, not seldom getting np at midnight to eat. 

 They plant a great many sorts of pulse, part of 

 which they eat green in the summer, keeping 

 great quantities for their winter's store, which 

 tliey carry along with them into the hunting quar- 

 ters and eat them. 



The small red peas is very common with them, 

 and they eat a great deal of that and other sorts 

 boiled with their meat or eaten wdth bear's fat, 

 which food makes them break wind backwards, 

 Avhich the men frequently do and laugh heartily 

 at it, it being accounted no ill manners amongst 

 the Indians — yet the women are more modest 

 than to follow that ill custom. At their setting 

 out, they have Indians to attend their hunting 

 camp that are not good and expert hunters, there- 

 fore are employed to carry burdens, to get bark 

 for the cabins, and other servile work ; also to go 

 backward and forward to their towns, to carry 

 news to the old people, wdiom they leave behind 

 them. The women are forced to carry their loads 

 of grain and other provisions and get fire wood ; ' 

 for a good hunter or warrior in these expeditions, 

 is employed in no other business than the affairs 

 of game and battle. The wild fruits which arc 

 dried in the summer, over fires, on hurdles and 

 in the sun, are now brought into the field ; as are 

 likewise the cakes and quiddonies of peaches, 

 and that fruit and bilberries dried, of which they 



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