1885.] Indian Corn and the Indian.” 229 
Force Coll. of Tracts, 11), and mentions “ Mattahunts, two pleas- 
ant isles of groves, gardens and corne fields a league in the 
sea from the mayne” (2., p. 5), and this indicates a change 
in the local conditioris rather than a change of habits in the 
people. Champlain, in 1605, describes the method of storing 
maize in large grass sacks buried under ground in dry places, 
and mentions the methods of field cultivation at the mouth 
of the Kennebec and Cape Cod, and finally says that after pass- 
ing Cape Cod they found much land well tilled in corn and other 
grains (Champlain’s Voy., Prince Soc. ed., p. 121, etc.), and in 
1636, when the English made an attack on the Indians of Block 
island, they found “ two hundred acres of land were under cultiva- 
tion, and the maize, already partly harvested, was piled in heaps 
to be stored away for winter use (Bryant’s Hist. of the U. S., 11, 
4). When the pilgrims first landed they sent out Miles Standish 
to explore, and “from thence [Truro] we went on, and found 
much plain ground, about fifty acres, fit for the plough, 7 — 
signs where the Indians formerly planted their corn, * 
We went on further and found new stubble, of which Beh had 
gotten corn this year” (Young’s Chron. of the Pilg., 130, 132). 
This same Nov. 16, 1620, they found “ divers fair Indian baskets 
filled with corn, some whereof was in ears, fair and good, of 
divers colors” (Morton’s New Eng.’s Memorial ed., 1826, p. 40), 
and Mouart says of this corn, “some yellow, and some red, 
and others mixt with blue” (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Ser. 1, vin, 
210). Higginson (1629) mentions also the color of the corn in 
New England, as “ red, blew and yellow, &c.; and of one corne 
there springeth four or five hundred” (New England’s Planta- 
tion, 118, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.) ; and Josselyn, before 1670, de- 
scribes not only corn of various colors, but beans, pumpkins, 
squashes, etc. Lescarbot (Hist. Nouv. France, ed. 1612) says the 
Indians of Maine, like those of Virginia and Florida, plant their 
corn in hills, along with beans. 
At first the Swedish settlements at New Jersey and Pennsylva- 
nia (1638) were obliged to buy maize of the Indians for sowing 
and eating (Peter Kalm, Trav.), and in 1633, on the Delaware 
river, obtained from the Indians corn and peas (Hazard’s Annals 
of Pa., 32). As showing the importance of corn to the Indians, 
we may note that Rev. John Campanius, in his Delaware and 
Swedish translation (1696) of the Catechism, accommodates the 
