themselves but each Indian alone when 
he is hungry, at all hours, morning, 
noon and night. By each fire are the 
cooking utensils, consisting of a pot, a 
bowl or calabash and a spoon, also 
made of calabash. These are all that 
relate to cooking. They lie upon mats, 
' with their feet towards the fire on each 
side of it. They do not sit much upon 
anything raised up, but, for the most 
part, sit upon the ground or squat on 
their ankles. Their other household 
articles consist of a calabash of water, 
out of which they drink, a small basket 
in which to carry their maize and beans 
and a knife. The implements are, for 
tillage, merely a small sharp stone; for 
hunting, a gun and a pouch for powder 
and lead; for fishing, a canoe without 
mast or sail, and nota nail in any part 
of it, though it is sometimes fully forty 
feet in length, fish hooks and lines, and 
scoop to paddle with in place of oars. 
‘All who live in one house are 
generally one stock, as father and 
mother, and their offspring. Their 
bread is maize pounded in a block by a 
stone, but not fine; this is mixed with 
water and made into a cake, which 
they bake under the hot ashes. They 
gave us a small piece when we entered, 
and although the grains were not ripe, 
and it was half-baked and coarse; 
we nevertheless had to eat ‘it, or at 
least not throw it away before them, 
which they would have regarded asa 
great sin, ora greataffront. Wechew- 
ed a little of it and managed to hide it. 
We also had to drink out of their cala- 
bashes the water which was very good. 
‘*Here we saw the Indians who had 
come on board the ship when we arrived. 
They were all joyful at the visit of our 
Gerrit who had long dwelt thereabouts 
and was an old friend of theirs. He 
gave them two jews harps, whereat 
they were much pleased and at once 
began to play them, and fairly well. 
Some of their chiefs—who are their 
priests and medicine men and éould 
speak good Dutch—were busy making 
shoes of deer leather, which they make 
soft by long working it between the 
hands. They had dogs, besides fowls 
and hogs, which they are gradually 
learning from Europeans how to man- 
age. Toward the last we asked them 
for some peaches, and their reply was, 
go and pick some! which shows their 
politeness! However, not wishing to 
offend them, we went out and pulled 
some. Although they are such a poor 
miserable people, they are licentious 
and proud, and much given to knavery 
and scoffing. As we noticed an ex- 
tremely old woman (not less thana 
hundred one would think ), some saucy 
young fellows jeeringly answered; 
twenty years! We observed the man- 
ner in which they travel with their 
children, a woman having one which 
she carried on her back. The little 
thing clung tight around her neck like 
a cat, and was held secure by a piece 
of duffels, their usual garment.’’ 
Dr. Arthur Hollick read the following 
review of 
RECENT LITERATURE RELATING TO 
STATEN ISLAND. 
Catalogue of the Binney and Bland Col- 
lection of the Terrestrial Aitr-breathing 
Molluscs of the United States and Ter- 
ritories, in the American Museum of 
Natural History, etc. L. P Gratacap. 
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. xiv 
(Dec 3, 1901) pp. 335-403, pls, xli-xlvi. 
In this catalog the following species 
are listed from Staten Island, without 
however any information in regard to 
the exact localities: 
Zonites (Conulus) fulvus (Drap,) Binney. 
Zonites (Gasterodonta) suppressus (Say) 
Binney. 
Ferussacia subcylindrica (Linn,)* 
Pupa (Leucocheila) fallax Say. 
Pupa (Vertigo) ovata Say. 
Strobila labyrinthica (Say) Morse. 
