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full of young squashes and their flowers boiled in water, and a little meal 
mixed. This dish was but weak food. Last of all was served a great bowl- 
full of Indian dumplings made of new soft corn cut or scraped off the ear, 
with the addition of some boiled beans, lapped well in Indian-corn leaves. 
This is good hearty provision.” 
“Again,” he remarks, ‘we prepared for setting forward, and many of 
the chiefs came once more to make their farewells. Some of them brought 
us provisions for our journey. We shook hands again and set out at nine.” 
One of the earliest notices of the hospitality of the Indian tribes of 
the United States was by the expedition of Philip Amidas and Arthur Bar- 
low, under the auspices of Sir Walter Raleigh, which visited the Aleonkin 
tribes of North Carolina in the summer of 1584. They landed at the Island 
of Wocoken, off Albemarle Sound, when “there came down from all parts 
great store of people,” whose chief was Granganimeo. ‘‘ He was very just 
of his promises, for oft we trusted him, and would come within his day to 
keep his word. He sent us commonly every day a brace of ducks, conies, 
hares, and fish, sometimes melons, walnuts, cucumbers, pease, and divers 
roots. * * * After this acquaintance, myself, with seven more, went 
thirty miles into the river Occam, that runneth toward the city Skicoack, and 
the evening following we came to an isle called Roanoak, from the harbor 
where we entered seven leagues: At the north end were nine houses, builded 
with cedar, fortified round with sharp trees [palisaded] and the entrance like 
a turnpike [turnspit]. When we came towards it, the wife of Granganimeo 
came running out to meet us (her husband was absent), commanding her 
people to draw our boat ashore for beating on the billows. Others she 
appointed to carry us on their backs aland, others to bring our oars into 
the house for stealing. When we came into the other room (for there were 
five in the house) she caused us to sit down by a great fire; and after took 
off our clothes and washed them, of some our stockins, and some our 
feet in warm water; and she herself took much pains to see all things well 
ordered and to provide us victuals. After we had thus dried ourselves she 
brought us into an inner room, where she sat on the board standing along 
the house, somewhat like frumenty, sodden venison, and roasted fish; in 
1Bartram’s Journal, p. 59. 2Tb., p. 63. 
