are fo expert at thefe, that I haue feene one a good diftance off ftrike
a very fmall bird through the middle: and they vfe to caft a thing
vp from hand, and before it comes to ground to meete it with a
fhaft. Their bowes are but weake, and carry not leuell very farre; yet
thefe are their liuelyhood, and euery day they are abroad after fquir-
rells, paretidges, turkies, deere, and the like game; whereof there is
a wonderfull plenty; though wee dare not yet bee fo bold our felues,
as to fetch frefh meate by this meanes farre off.

   The Indian houfes are all built heere in a long halfe Ouall; nine
or tenne foote high to the middle top, where (as in ancient Tem-
ples) the light is admitted by a window, halfe a yard fquare; which
window is alfo the chimney, which giueth paffage to the fmoake,
the fire being made in the middeft of the floore (as in our old halls
of England,) and about it they vfe to lie. Saue only that their kings
and great men haue their cabbins, and a bed of skinnes well dreffed
(wherein they are excellent) fet on boards, and foure ftakes driuen
into the ground. And now at this prefent, many of vs liue in thefe
Witchotts (as they terme them) conueniently enough till better
bee fet vp: But they are dreffed vp fomthing better then when the
Indians had them.

   The naturall witt of this nation is good and quick, and will con-
ceiue a thing very readily: they excell in fmell and tafte and haue far
Sharper fight then wee. Their ordinary diet is Poane and Omine,
both made of corne, to which they adde at times, Fifh, Foule, or
Venifon.

   They are of great temperance, efpecially from Hott-waters or
Wine, which they are hardly brought to tafte, faue onely whom the
English haue corrupted with their owne vices.

   For modeftie, I muft confeffe, I neuer faw from Man or Woman,
any action tending to leuitie: and yet daily the poore foules are here
in our houfes, and take content to bee with vs, bringing fometimes
Turkies, fometimes Squirrills, as big as Englifh Rabbetts, but much
more dainty; at other times fine white cakes, Partridges, Oifters
ready boil'd and ftewed: and doe runne vnto vs with fmiling coun-
tenance when they fee vs, and will hunt and fifh for vs, if wee will;
and all this with entercourfe of very few words, but wee haue hither-
to gathered their meaning by fignes.
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