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meat, but none of them have any compliments 

 to waste on it. It was hard and tasteless — but 

 it would support life. 



The savages made no use of salt in their food, 

 and vegetables and cereals were often lacking. 

 The sole dish at many of their tabagieSy or 

 feasts, was an unseasoned stew into which were 

 thrown masses of any meat that happened 

 to be at hand, without regard to any culinary 

 rules. 



In a vellum-bound folio, profusely illustrated 

 with steel-plate engravings, Arnoldus Montanus 

 told the people of Holland in the seventeenth 

 century of the wonders of the two Americas. His 

 book is entitled The New and Unknown World; 

 or Description of America and the Southern Land.^^ 

 It was published in Amsterdam in 1671. A trans- 

 lation of Montanus's Description of New Nether- 

 land is given in O'Callaghan's Documentary History 

 of the State of New York?"" New Netherland, 

 according to the Dutch writer, was bounded by 

 Virginia on the southwest, by New England on 

 the northeast, by the ocean on the southeast, 

 and by the River Canada (St. Lawrence) on the 



"'De Nieuwe en Onhekende Weereld: of Beschryvtng van America en 

 H Zuid-land. 



30 Published in Albany, 1851; see vol. iv., pp. 75-83. 



