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