All The Indians Hereabouts Carefully Preserve The Bones Of The Flesh
They Eat, And Burn Them, As Being Of Opinion, That If They Omitted
That Custom, The Game Would Leave Their Country, And They Should Not Be Able
To Maintain Themselves By Their Hunting.
Most of these Indians
wear Mustachoes, or Whiskers, which is rare; by reason the Indians
are a People that commonly pull the Hair of their Faces, and other Parts,
up by the Roots, and suffer none to grow.
Here is plenty of Chesnuts,
which are rarely found in Carolina, and never near the Sea, or Salt-Water;
tho' they are frequently in such Places in Virginia.
At the other House, where our Fellow-Travellers lay, they had provided a Dish,
in great Fashion amongst the Indians, which was Two young Fawns,
taken out of the Doe's Bellies, and boil'd in the same slimy Bags
Nature had plac'd them in, and one of the Country-Hares,
stew'd with the Guts in her Belly, and her Skin with the Hair on.
This new-fashion'd Cookery wrought Abstinence in our Fellow-Travellers,
which I somewhat wonder'd at, because one of them made nothing
of eating Allegators, as heartily as if it had been Pork and Turneps.
The Indians dress most things after the Wood-cock Fashion,
never taking the Guts out. At the House we lay at, there was
very good Entertainment of Venison, Turkies, and Bears; and which is customary
amongst the Indians, the Queen had a Daughter by a former Husband,
who was the beautifullest Indian I ever saw, and had an Air of Majesty
with her, quite contrary to the general Carriage of the Indians.
She was very kind to the English, during our Abode, as well as
her Father and Mother.
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