H4 March 1749. 



which obliged them to fly ; the girl was 

 afterwards healed, but never got any hair 

 on her head again ; (lie was married, had 

 many children, and lived to a considerable 

 age. At another time, the Indians at- 

 tempted to kill the mother of this old man, 

 but fhe vigorouily refilled them, and in 

 the mean while a number of Swedes came 

 up, who frightened the Indians, and made 

 them run away. Nobody could ever find 

 out to what nation of Indians thefe owe 

 their origin ; for in general they lived very 

 peaceably with the Swedes. 



The Indians had their little plantations 

 of maize in many places ; before the 

 Swedes came into this country, the In- 

 dians had no other than their hatchets 

 made of flone; in order to make maize 

 plantations they cut out the trees and pre- 

 pared the ground in the manner I have before 

 mentioned*. They planted but little 

 maize, for they lived chiefly upon hunting; 

 and throughout the greateft part of fummer, 

 their Hopnifs or the roots of the Glycine 

 Apios, their Kafni/s, or the roots of the 

 Sagittaria Sagittifolia, their 'Taw- ho or the 

 roots of the Arum Virgintcum, their Taw- 

 kee or Orontium aquaticum, and whortle- 

 berries, were their chief food. They had 



no 



* In page 39 of this Volume. 



