1 40 Mr, W A F E R's Description 



Birds, &c. and bring the pieces Jrome 

 ready dried : And if there be much of it, 

 the Men help the Women to carry home 

 the Venifon. Thefe pieces will keep a 

 great while 5 and when the ftock is alrnoft 

 out, they go again a Huntimg. They 

 make a Barbecue at home alfo, heaping up 

 thefe dried pieces a-crofs, and often put- 

 ting feme Embers underneath , to keep 

 them from giving, or growing mufty, in 

 that moift Country. From thefe pieces 

 they cut off bits for u(e as they want 

 them. 



Their If they take any parcels of their dried 

 Cookery h p| e {]^ or an y new ly killed, they cut it into 

 fmall pieces, and throw them into the Pip- 

 kin 5 putting into it feme of the Roots and 

 green Plantains or Bonanos, or any other 

 Eatable, and a great deal of Pepper 3 ftew- 

 ing all together by a fimmering gentle Heat, 

 never boiling it. The VelTel ftands thus 

 clofe cover cl for feven or eight Hours 3 for 

 'tis fet on very early in the Morning, and 

 they ftay till all be brought to Pulp or 

 Mafh. This is for fet Meals • for Plantains" 

 and Bonanos they eat all Day 3 but this fet 

 Meal of Flefh they eat but once , about 

 and man- Mid-day only. The Mafh they pour out 

 ner of into a large Earthen Difh or Calabafh, fet- 

 Eacmg. t j n g j t Qn t | le g reat Block, which in is every 



Houfe as a Table, fitting round on little 

 Blocks as on Stools. But at great Feafts, 



for 



