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Identifier: historyofvirgini00beve (find matches)
Title: The history of Virginia, in four parts
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Beverley, Robert, ca. 1673-1722 Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Richmond, J. W. Randolph
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hot and virulent quality : but they canmanage it so, as in case of necessity, to make bread of it,just as the East Indians and those of Egypt are said to doof colocassia, or the West Indians of cassava. It grows likea flag in the miry marshes, having roots of the magnitudeand taste of Irish potatoes, which are easy to be dug up. § 16. They accustom themselves to no set meals, but eatnight and day, when they have plenty of provisions, or ifthey have got any thing that is a rarity. They are verypatient of hunger, when by any accident they happen tohave nothing to eat; which they make more easy to them-selves by girding up their bellies, just as the wild Arabs aresaid to do in their long marches ; by which means they areless sensible of the impressions of hunger. §17. Among all this variety of food, nature hath nottaught them the use of any other drink than water; whichthough they have in cool and pleasant springs every where,yet they will not drink that if they can get pond water, or
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OF THEIR COOKERY AND FOOD. 141 such as has been warmed by the sun and weather. BaronLahontan tells of a sweet juice of maple, which the In-dians to the northward gave him, mingled with water ; butour Indians use no such drink. For their strong drink theyare altogether beholden to us, and are so greedy of it, thatmost of them will be drunk as often as they find an oppor-tunity ; notwithstanding which it is a prevailing humoramong them, not to taste any strong drink at all, unlessthey can get enough to make them quite drunk, and thenthey go as solemnly about it as if it were part of theirreligion. § 18. Their fashion of sitting at meals is on a mat spread-on the ground, with their legs lying out at lengih beforethem, and the dish between their legs ; for which reasonthey seldom or never sit more than two together at a dish,who may with convenience mix their legs together and havethe dish stand commodiously to them both, as appears bythe figure. The spoons which they eat with do general

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