Indian corn is abundant there, and is pounded by the women, made into me;i], and baked into cakes in the ashes, after the olden fasliion, and used for food.

As they care nothing for the spiritual, they direct tiieir

study principally to the physical, closely observing

The expprip.nce tlic scasous. Thc womcu there are tlie most expeof tlir women in . , /. , i

Astronomy, ricuced star gazers ; there is scarcely one oi t;iem

but can name all the stars ; their rising, setting ; t'.ie

position of the Arctos, that is the wagon, is as well known to

them as to us, and they name them by other names. Biit Him

who dwells above they know not ; affording aU us Christians

Noncf.tvoi<-nti5. ggjj(^]y fayorcd us, leaving these in darkness: so

am cnrririitis.seil J 7 o J

^'iTom%."'''' ^^^''^^ ^^'^^^^ *^^^ apostle says is found to bctrue. It is not of liim that willeth, nor of him that runneth.

but of Gpd that sheweth mercy.

30 FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

There is little authority known among these nations. They

live almost all free. In each village, indeed, is found a ^'uv"ing.°'^ person who is somewhat above the others and commands

absolutely when there is war and when they are gathered from all the villages to go on the war path. But the fight once ended, his superiority ceases. They are very much afraid of the dead ; but when they perceive that they must die, they are very brave and more ferocious than beasts. When a lad courts a girl, he buys her generally in a neighboring village, and this done, tlie daughter is then delivered to him by two or three other women, wlio come carrying on their heads meal, roots, corn and otlier articles, to the young man's hut, and he receives her.