Water satisfies their thirst; high and low make use of Indian corn and beans, flesh meat and fish prepared allalike. Thecrushed corn is daily boiled to a pap called by them sappaen. They observe no set time for meals. Whenever hunger demands, the time for eating arrives. . Beavers' tails are considered the most savory delicacy. Whilst hunting they live some days on roasted corn carried about the person in a little bag.

A little corn in wafer swells to alarge mass. Henry he voraae, "Hudson relates, that he entered the river Montaines

in the latitude of forty degrees and there went ashore ; the Indians made strange gambols with dancing and singing ; carried arrows, the points of which consisted of sharp stones, fastened to the wood with pitch ; they sleep under the blue sky on little mats of platted leaves of trees; suck strong tobacco ; are friendly but very thievish. Hudson sailed up thirty miles higher ; went into a canoe with an old Indian, achief over forty men and seventeen women, who conducted him ashore. They all abode in one house well built of the bark of oak trees. Around lay drying more than three ship loads of Indian eorn and beans ; besides the crop that stood luxuriantly in the field. Hudson scarcely had his head under the roof, but he was seated on two mats spread out on the floor. Two men immediately had orders to shoot game. In the twinkle of an eye these brought in pigeons they had killed. A fat dog which had been 'very expertly skinned with shells, was laid also on the 'fire. Other preparations were, likewise made for Hudson's good entertainment, but as he did not intend to pass the night there, he did not profit by them ; notwithstanding the Indians broke their arrows and cast them into the fire so that Hudson may rid himself