bows and arrows at a mark, a very common re-
creation with them, pitching quails, jumping,
playing at some kind of games, and on music-
al instruments. I have not while in this
village seen either man or boy at any kind
of work. It was unnatural, and to me griev-
ous, to see little girls and old women working
hard, while boys of 12, 14, or 16 years of age
just by them, all day, were doing nothing
but playing.

At seasons the men hunt and fish, and
they work the canoe, at which they are very
expert; but at this season there is very little
game brought in; they also catch a few fish;
little however was done at this while we were there.

They live poor; their chief subsistence
at this season was corn, beans, and bear's oil,
prepared in diferent ways.

From my observations they eat much
less than we do - a small piece of bread, or
dumpling dipped in oil, seems to satisfy
nature: and their stated meals I thought
were not more than two a day.

The visits of their friends are not interrupted
by cooking, or much ceremony in laying
the table, If the hominy is boiled, which
was generally the case after eleven o clock, and
it was not material whether cold or warm, when