New Jerfey, kaccoon. 1 1 5 



ho horfes or other cattle which could be 

 fubfervient to them in their agriculture, 

 and therefore did all the work with their 

 own hands. After they had reaped the 

 maize, they kept it in holes under ground, 

 during winter; they dug thefe holes fel- 

 dom deeper than a fathom, and often not fo 

 deep ; at the bottom and on the fides they 

 put broad pieces of bark. The Andropogon 

 hi 'come , a grafs which grows in great plenty 

 here, and which the Englifo call Indian 

 Grafs, and the Swedes Wiljkt Grafs*, fup- 

 plies the want of bark -, the ears of maize are 

 then thrown into the hole and covered to a 

 conliderable thicknefs with the fame grafs, 

 and the whole is again covered by a fumcient 

 quantity of earth: the maize kept ex- 

 tremely well in thofe holes, and each 

 Indian had feveral fuch fubterraneous (lores, 

 where his corn lay fafe, though he tra- 

 velled far from it. After the Swedes had 

 fettled here and planted apple-trees and 

 peach-trees, the Indians, and efpecially 

 their women, fometimes ftole the fruit in 

 great quantity ; but when the Swedes 

 caught them, they gave them a fevere drub- 

 bing, took the fruit from them, and often 

 their clothes too. In the fame manner it 

 H 2 happened 



* Graf; of the ravages. 



