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keep cold ; fometimes' they mix beans, different | 

 fruits, oil and fat with it : one muft have a good 

 Itomach to digeil fuch dainties. 



The Indians make no other ufe of the turnfoles, 

 but to extract from them an oil with which they 

 rub themfeives : this is more commonly drawn 

 from the feeds than from the root of this plant. 

 This root differs little from what we call, in France 

 topinambours or apples of the earth. Potatoes fo 

 common in the iflands and on the continent of South 

 America, have been planted with fuccefs in Loui- 

 fiana. The continual ufe which all the nations of 

 Canada made of a kind of tobacco which grows all 

 over this country, has given occafion to fome tra- 

 vellers to lay that they fwallowed the fmoke of it$ 

 which ferved them for food ; but this has fince 

 been difcovered to be a falfity, and to have no 

 foundation, except from their having been obfer^ 

 ved to remain a long time without eating. After 

 qnce tailing our tobacco they can no longer endure 

 their own, and it is very eafy to gratify them in 

 this point, tobacco growing very well here, and 

 it is even faid, that by making a proper choice 

 of the foil, we might raife a moll excellent fort 

 of it. 



The lefier occupations of the women and what 

 is their common employment in their cabbins, are 

 the making of thread from the interior pellicles of 

 the barK of a tree, called white- wood, which they 

 manufacture nearly as we do hemp. The women 

 too are their dyers : they work alfo at feveral 

 things made of bark, and make fmall figures with 

 fhe hair of the porcupine ; they make fmall cups 

 pr other utenms of wood, they paint and em- 

 broider 



