: of the Delawares of Ohio: 
230 Indian Corn and the Indian. [ March, 
Lord’s Prayer to the circumstances of the Indian thus: instead 
of “give us our daily bread,” he has it, “a plentiful supply of 
venison and corn” (6. 101). In 1609 Hudson mentions “a 
great Seed of maize” near where is at present Renssellaer 
county, N 
In Vicma Grenville, in 1585, “ with hasty cruelty ordered the. 
village to be burned, and the standing corn to be destroyed” 
(Bancroft, Hist. of the U. S., 1, 96); Heriot, and Strachey men- 
tion maize, as also John Smith and. many others, and the method 
of Indian culture is described in “A True Declaration of Vir- 
ginia,” 1610. 
In the expedition of Narvaez to Florida, in 1528, maize was 
found in abundance. In 1544 the Indian tribes everywhere on the 
route of De Soto’s expedition from Florida to Alabama, Missis- 
sippi, Missouri and westward were found to be an agricultural 
people, subsisting largely upon maize, and in De Bry’s collection, 
15y1, Plate xxt, Vol. 11, represents Florida Indians of both sexes 
engaged in the cultivation of the fields. Indeed, there is hardly 
an account of Florida in the sixteenth century but what mentions 
inferentially or otherwise maize, beans and pumpkins as being 
produced in great abundance. 
In 1540 Coronado started from Mexico ‘for an expedition north- 
ward, and everywhere, where the soil was suitable, found maize 
and other products of cultivation, even to his most northern 
point, which is probably the now State of Kansas, a country 
well watered by brooks and rivers, * * * the soil was the 
best strong black mold, and bore plums like those of Spain, nuts, 
grapes and excellent mulberries. The inhabitants were savages, 
having no culture but of maize.” Marquette in 1673, Alouez in 
1676 and Membré in 1679 all mention the cultivation of maize by 
the Illinois Indians, and in 1680 Hennepin found corn everywhere 
in his journey from Niagara to the Mississippi river. 
e have now briefly, by the use of a few only of the authori- 
ties at our command, shown the existence of the cultivation of 
maize throughout a large part of the borders of the present Uni- 
_ ted States. A few more references of a later date may serve to 
impress the fact that the Indians were anciently an agricultural 
race where the conditions for agriculture were favorable, In Gen- 
‘Wayne’s letter to the Secretary of War, August, 1794, he speaks 
“The margin of those beautiful 
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