54 HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 
second dish consisted of three fish, whereof he took a piece, and having 
taken out the bones and blown upon it to cool it, he put it into my mouth. 
The third dish was a large dog, which they had killed on purpose, but 
understanding that we did not eat this animal they sent it away. The fourth 
was a piece of buffalo meat, of which they put the fattest pieces into our 
mouths.” 
Lower down the river, below the mouth of the Ohio, they fell in with 
another tribe, of whom they speak as follows: ‘‘ We therefore disembarked 
and went to their village. They entertained us with buffalo and beai’s 
meat and white plums, which were excellent. We observed they had guns, 
knives, axes, shovels, glass beads, and bottles in which they put their 
powder. They wear their hair long as the Iroquois, and their women are 
dressed as the Hurons.”” 
In 1766 Jonathan Carver visited the Dakota tribes of the Mississippi, 
the Sauks and Foxes, and Winnebagos of Wisconsin, and the Ojibwas of 
Upper Michigan. He speaks generally of the hospitality of these tribes 
as follows: ‘‘No people are more hospitable, kind, and free than the 
Indians. They will readily share with any of their own tribe the last part 
of their provisions, and even with those of a different nation, if they chance 
to come in when they are eating. Though they do not keep one common 
stock, yet that community of goods which is so prevalent among them, and 
their generous disposition, render it nearly of the same effect.” The 
“community of goods, which is so prevalent among them,” is explained by 
their large households tormed of related families, who shared their provis- 
ions in common. The ‘seven families of Shoshonees” in one house, and 
also the houses ‘crowded with men, women, and children,” mentioned by 
Lewis and Clarke, are fair samples of Indian households in the early period. 
We turn again to the southern tribes of the United States, the Cher- 
okes, Choetas, Chickasas, and Confederated Creek tribes. James Adair, 
whose work was published in 1775, remarks generally upon their usages 
in the following language: ‘‘They are so hospitable, kind-hearted, and 
1 Historical collections of Louisiana, part ii. An Account of the Discovery of some New Countries’ 
and Nations of North America in 1673, by Pere Marquette and Sieur Joliet, p. 287. 
2Tb., p. 293. 3Carver’s Travels, etc., Phila. ed. 1796, p. 171. 
