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ri""f ^^^'^'"'^"n? it in Shape. I take these Kinds to be the same with 

 those which are represented in the Ilerbals to be Spanish Potatoes I a^ 

 sure, those call d English or Irish Potatoes are nothing like these, either In 

 Shape. Colour, or Taste. The Way of proKasatins Potatoes there. Is hy cuttinR 

 the small ones to Pieces, and planting the ("uttinKs in Hills of loos^ Earth 

 but they are .so tender, that it is very diffl<-Ult U, preserve them in the Winter 

 for the least Frost coming at them, rots an.l destroys them, and therefore 

 People bury 'em under Ground, near the Fire-Hearth all the Winter until the 

 Time comes, that their Seedings are to be set. 



How the Indians order'd their Tobacco I am not certain, thev now dependinf; 

 chietly upon the English for what they snioak ; but I am informd thev use<l 

 to let it all run to Seed, only succouring the Leaves to keep the Sprouts from 

 growing upon, and starving them ; and when it was ripe, they pulPd off the 

 Leaves. cure<l them in the Sun, and laid them up for Use. But the Planters 

 make a heavy Bustle with it now, and can't please the Market neither." 



CULTIVATED CROrS, INDIANS OF VIItOINTA: MELONS 



Pagatowr a kind of graine so called hy the inhabitants; the same in the 

 West Indies is called Mayze; Englishmen call it Guinney-wheate or Turkle 

 wheate, according to the names of the countrey from whence the like hath been 

 brought. The graine is about the bignesse of our ordinary English peaze and 

 not much different in forme and shape: but of divers colours: some white, 

 some red. some yellow and some blew. All of them yeelde a very white and 

 sweete flowre being according to his kinde. at maketh a very good bread. 

 Wee made of the same in the countrey some mault. whereof was brued as good 

 ale as was to bee desired. So likewise by the help of hops thereof ma.\ bee 

 made as good Beere. . . . 



Okindgier, called by us beanes, because in greatnesse and partly in sliajie 

 they are like to the Beanes of England, saving that they are Hatter. 



Wickonzowr, called by us peaze, in resjiect of the beanes for distlnitidii 

 sake, because they are much lesse ; although in forme they little differ. . . 



Macocqwer. according, to their severall formes, calle<l by us. Pompions. 

 Mellions. and Gourdes, because they are of the like formes as those kitules in 

 England.' 



I have also seen. once, a plant similar tn the Melon of India, with fruit the 

 size of a small lime.' 



He does not state at what stage of <rrowth lie .s;iw it " the size of 

 a small lime." He mentions jjumpkins in the same Relation. 



They [the Illinois Indians as seen by him on his first visit] "live by game, 

 which is abundant in this country, and on Indian corn |bled d"in<lej, of which 

 they always gather a good crop, so that they have never suffered by famine. 

 They also sow beans and melons, which are excellent, especially tho.se with a 

 red seed. Their squashes are not of the best: they dry them in the sun to 

 eat in the winter and spring.* 



'Beverley, nistory of Virginia, Book ii, p. 26 et secj 

 = Ilariot. A. Bi-ii-fc and Truf Keport. pp. 1.{-H. 



"Brcssani's Relation, 1652-1653. in Jesuit RelationH. vol. 38, p. 243. 

 « Narrative of Father Marquette, in Frencli, Historical Collrrtionx nf Lmiiniana. pt. iv, 

 p. 33. 



