10 Fish, Fishing and Fisheries of Fennsfjlvania. 



ant sighte to see the people, somtymes wadinge, and goinge sometymes 

 sailinge in those Eivers, which are shallowe and not deepe, free from 

 all care of heapinge opp Eiches for their posterite, content with their 

 state, and lining frendlye together of those things which god of his 

 bountye hath giuen vnto them, yet without giving hym any thankes ac- 

 cording to his desarte. 



"So sauage is this people and depriuedof the true knowledge of god. 

 For they haue none other then is mentioned before in this worke.'' 



Besides telling us how the Indians catch fish, Hamot also tells us how 

 they cook them. He says: 



" After they haue taken store of fishe, they gett them vnto a place fitt 

 to dress yt. Ther they sticke vpp in the grownde 4 stakes in a square 

 roome and lay 4 potes vpon them, and others ouer thwart the same, the 

 same like vnto an hurdle of sufficient heigthe, and laying their fishe 

 vpon this hurdle, they make a fyre vnderneathe to broile the same, not 

 after the manner of the people of Florida, which doe but schorte 

 (schorche) and harden their meate in the smoke only to Keserue the 

 same during all the winter. For this people, reseruinge nothinge for 

 store, thei do broile, and spend away all att once, and when they haue 

 further neede they roste or seethe fresh, as we shall see hereaffter. And 

 when as the hurdle can not holde all the fishes, they hange the Keste 

 by the fyrres on sticks sett vpp in the grounde a gaiusto the fyres, and 

 than they finishe the reste of theire cookerye. They take good heede 

 that they bee not bm-ntt. When the first are broyled they lay others 

 on that weare newlye brought, continuing the dressinge of their meate 

 in this sorte vntil they thincke they haue sufficient." 



