hot

ashes, and make a "pap or porridge, called by some sapsis, by others dundare (literally boiled bread), in which they mixed

beans of different color which they raised." The maize from which their bread and sapsis were made was raised by them selves, and was broken up or ground in rude mortars. They observed no set time for meals. the repast was prepared. their sapsis,

Whenever hunger demanded,

Beavers' tails, the brains offish, and

ornamented with beans, were

their state

dishes,

They knew how to preserve meat and fish by smoking, and when on a journey or while hunting, At their meals they sat carried with them corn roasted whole.

and highest luxuries.

on the ground. Their occupations were hunting, fishing and war. When not on the war path they repaired to the rivers and caught fish " and or to the forests and hunted deer, fawns, hares and foxes, all

such," says the narrator who adds,

" the

country as

game ;

is

full

of

appears by the

hogs, bears, leopards, yea, lions, The beaver skins which were brought on board."

was most

for its food and fur, but for the highly prized by them, not only

medicinal uses of the oil obtained.

The women made cloth

cultivated the fields of corn, beans ing of skins, prepared food,

and squashes, made mats, etc., but the men never labored until the field, when they remained with they became too old for ''the^women and made mats, wooden bowls and spoons, traps, nets, arrows, canoes, etc. Their houses were for the