This Day, We Met With Seven Heaps Of Stones,
Being The Monuments Of Seven Indians, That Were Slain In That Place
By The Sinnagers, Or Iroquois.
Our Indian Guide added a Stone
to each heap.
We took up our Lodgings near a Brook-side,
where the Virginia Man's Horses got away; and went back to the Kadapau's.
{Sunday.}
This day, one of our Company, with a Sapona Indian, who attended Stewart,
went back for the Horses. In the mean time, we went to shoot Pigeons,
which were so numerous in these Parts, that you might see many Millions
in a Flock; they sometimes split off the Limbs of stout Oaks, and other Trees,
upon which they roost o' Nights. You may find several Indian Towns,
of not above 17 Houses, that have more than 100 Gallons of Pigeons Oil,
or Fat; they using it with Pulse, or Bread, as we do Butter,
and making the Ground as white as a Sheet with their Dung.
The Indians take a Light, and go among them in the Night,
and bring away some thousands, killing them with long Poles,
as they roost in the Trees. At this time of the Year, the Flocks,
as they pass by, in great measure, obstruct the Light of the day.
{Monday.}
On Monday, we went about 25 Miles, travelling through a pleasant,
dry Country, and took up our Lodgings by a Hillside, that was one entire Rock,
out of which gush'd out pleasant Fountains of well-tasted Water.
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