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Torteyses, strawberries, mulberries, and such like. In June, Julie, and August, 

 they feed upon the rootes of Tocknough, berries, fish, and greene wheat [i. e., 

 corn]. (Smith, Tyler ed., 1907, p. 102.) 



Elsewhere he amends his remarks on the planting time by saying : 



In April! they begin to plant, but their chiefe plantation is in May, and so they 

 continue till the midst of June. What they plant in Aprill they reape in 

 August, for May in September, for June in October. [He says also] from 

 September untill the midst of November are the chiefe Feasts and sacrifice. 

 Then have they plenty of fruits as well planted as naturall, as corne greene 

 and ripe, fish, fowle, and wild beastes exceeding fat. (Smith, Tyler ed., 1907, 

 pp. 95, 96.) 



The sturgeon season on the James lasted from the end of May until 

 the middle of September, but until the end of June only young 

 sturgeon were taken (Smith, Tyler ed., 1907, p. 85) . 



When all their fruits be gathered, little els they plant, and this is done 

 by their women and children; neither doth this long sufiice them: for neere 3 

 parts of the yeare, they only observe times and seasons, and live of what the 

 Country naturally affordeth from hand to mouth, &c. (Smith, Tyler ed., 1907, 

 p. 97.) 



The winter hunting season is covered by the following remarks of 

 Smith : 



By their continuall ranging, and travel, they know all the advantages and 

 places most frequented with Deare, Beasts, Fish, Foule, Rootes, and Berries. 

 At their huntings they leave their habitations, and reduce themselves into 

 companies, as the Tartars doe, and goe to the most desert places with their 

 families, where they spend their time in hunting and fowling up towards the 

 mountaines, by the heads of their rivers, where there is plentie of game. For 

 betwixt the rivers, the grounds are so narrowe, that little cometh there which 

 they devoure not. It is a marvel they can so directly passe these deserts some 

 3 or 4 daies journey without habitation. ( Smith, Tyler ed., 1907, pp. 103-104. ) 



Strachey covers this in the following words : 



In the tyme of their huntings, they leave their habitations, and gather them- 

 selves into companyes, as doe the Tartars, and goe to the most desart places 

 with their families, where they passe the tyme with hunting and fowling up 

 towards the mountaines, by the heads of their rivers, wher in deed there is 

 plentye of game, for betwixt the rivers the land is not so large belowe that 

 therein breed sufBcyent to give them all content. Considering especyally, how 

 at all tymes and seasons they destroy them, yt may seeme a marveyle how 

 they can so directly passe and wander in these desarts, sometymes three or 

 fower dayes' journyes, meeting with no habitacions, and, by reason of the 

 woods, not having sight of the sun, whereby to direct them how to coast yt. 

 (Strachey, 1849, pp. 75-76.) 



Hariot gives an earlier sturgeon season in North Carolina, from 

 February to May inclusive, and Burrage asserts that there were three 

 crops of corn in that favored land within five months. 



In May they sow, in July they reape, in June they sow, in August they reape: 

 in July they sow, in September they reape. (Hariot, 1893, p. 31: Burrage, 

 1906, p. 234.) 



