NORTH AMERICA. 
lance, every day’s excurfion prefenting new fcenes 
of wonder and delight. 
Early in the morning our chief invited me with 
him on a vifit to the town, to take a final leave of 
the White King. 2 ¥e were gracioufly received 
and treated with thevutmod civility and hofpita- 
lity : there was a noble entertainment and repaft 
provided againfl our arrival, confiding of bears ribs* 
venifon, varieties of fifh, roafted turkies (which 
they call the white man’s difh), hot corn cakes, and 
a very agreeable, cooling fort of jelly, which they 
call conte: this is prepared from the root of the 
China briar (Smilax pfeudo-China; Smilax afpera* 
frudhi nigro, radice nodofa, magna, lasvi, farinacea ; 
Sloan, tom. i. p. 31. t. 143. f. 1. habit. Jamaica* 
Virginia, Carolina, and Florida) : they chop the 
roots in pieces, which are afterwards well pounded 
in a wooden mortar, then being mixed with clean 
water, in a tray or trough, they drain it through 
bafkets ; the fediment, which fettles to the bottom 
of the fecond veil'd, is afterwards dried in the open 
air, and is then a very fine reddifli four or meal : a 
fmall quantity of this mixed with warm water and 
fweetened with honey, when cool, becomes a beau- 
tiful, delicious jelly, very nourifhing and wholefome. 
They alfo mix , it with fine corn flour, which being, 
fried in frefli bear’s oil makes very good hot cakes 
or flitters. 
On our taking leave of the king and head men, 
they entreated our chief to reprefent to the white 
people, their unfeigned defire to bury in oblivion 
the late breach of amity and intermiflion of com- 
merce, which they truded would never be re Heeded; 
on the people of T aiahafochte ; and, ladly, that we 
would 
