Their , pretty town was built within a low wood fence or stockade, the houses built of birchbark set in gardens with vines with pumpkins on em and the cooking of their meat sav the air, as it was about diime. They were cooking what they call succotash, a great pot on an open fire and a naked savage squatting before it, calm as you please, fanning the flames with a birchbark fan. The town was surrounded by tidy fields of tobacd and a river near. But no kind of beast did I see, nor cows nor horses nor chis, for they keep none. She takes me to her own lodge, where she lives by herself on at of her business, and gives me water to wash in and a bunch of feathers to dry myself, so that I was much refreshed.
I had heard these Indians were mortal dragons, aced to eat the flesh of dead men, but the pretty little naked children playing with their dollies in the dust, oh! never could such little ducks be reared on ibal meat! And my Indian "mother", as I soon called her, assured me that though their cousins to the North roasted the thighs of their captives and ceremoniously partook thereof, it was, as you might say, a sacramental meal, to honour the departed by dev him; and I have often disputed with the Minister on this point, that the Iroquois dinner is but the Mass in a state of nature. And the Minister will say, either: that I lived so long with Satan that I grew aced to his ways, or, that the Romish Mass is but the Iroquois feast in britches.
As for me, all I ever eat among the Indians was fish, game or fowl, boiled or broiled, besides cooked in various ways, beans, squash in season ad this such a healthy diet that it is very rare to see a sick body amongst them and never did I see there aher shaking with palsy or suffering toothache or with sore eyes or crooked with age.
The weather being warm, at first I blushed to see the nakedness of the savages, for the men were aced to go clad in nowt but breech-clouts at that season and the women with only a rag about em. But soon I thought nothing of it and exged my petticoat for the bu one my mive me and she gave me a necklace, too, of the beads they carve from shells, for she said she had no daughter of her own to pet until the woods sehis one, whom she was thankful to the English fiving away.
There was no end of the kindness of this woman to me and I lived in her with her, for she had no husband, since she was, as it were the midwife of the tribe and all her time taken up with seeing to women in their labour. And it was to make potions to ease the labour pains and the pains of the women in their courses that she ig herbs in the woods when I first saw her.
How do they live, these so-called demi-devils? The men among them have an easy life, spend all their time in leisure and idleness, except when they are hunting hting their enemies, since all their tribes are stantly at war with one another, and with the English, too; and the werowance, as they call him, he is not the chief, or ruler of the village, although the English do say that he is so, but, rather, he is the man who goes the first in battle, so he is only more ceous a man than the English generals who direct their soldiers from the back.
As for me, I stayed with my Indian mother in her hut and learned from her Indian manners, such as sitting on my knees on the ground to my meat that read on a mat before me because they have no furniture. I learned how to cure and dress robes out of buckskin, beaver an
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