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found with them, in not being mutilated ; for of the seven 
specimens, four were whole, and the fifth had lost but one 
end, while of the humeri of the other kinds, scarce one 
was whole enough to enable one to identify the species. 
They seem not to have been attractive to the dogs. They 
are characterized by their much flattened shape, thick 
walls, narrow cavity, and the absence of an opening for 
the entrance of air. Well-preserved specimens of the 
coracoid bone were also found entire. 
The catalogue we have given of the animals found in 
the shell-heaps shows that the elements of variety in food 
certainly existed, especially if we add to these the maize, 
beans, squashes, and various kinds of roots Indians are 
known to have used. From the testimony of eye- 
Witnesses, soon after the settlement of the country, it 
appears that while sometimes the Indian contented him- 
self with maize roasted, or with this and beans made into 
a pottage, he often, when the necessary materials were 
at hand, made what might well be called a hodge-podge. 
Gookin gives a full account of the manner in which this 
was concocted. In a word, it consisted of a mixture of 
fish and flesh of all sorts. “Shad, eels, alewives,” “venison, 
beaver, bear’s flesh, moose, otters, raccoons, or any kind 
that they take in hunting,” are cut into pieces, bones and 
all, and stewed together. “Also they mix with said 
pottage séveral sorts of roots, as Jerusalem artichokes, 
and ground nuts, and other roots, and pompions, and 
squashes, and also several sorts of nuts or masts, as oak- 
acorns, chesnuts, walnuts. These, husked and dried and 
powdered, they thicken their pottage therewith.” * 
Father Raslest expresses his disgust at their style of 
* Historical Collection of the Indians of New England, in Collections of Massa- 
chusetts History Society. Fini ; 
t Lettres Edifiantes et ‘cuneuse Tel p 6m: 
