that we had been preserved on our journey so as to
arrive safe, and asked us if we would wish to have
a general council with his people, & when it would
suit us to have it. We inform’d him we should
like to see them in council tomorrow, if they could
be collected by that time, which was agreed to, and
runners dispatched immediately for the that purpose, he
then quesied of us, if we could eat Indian fashion &
upon our answering we could, we were soon presented
with a number of large Indian dumplings, boiled
in cornhusks & sewed up in a bark dish, together
with a small kettle of Bean Oil to dip the dum
pling in as we ate it, this completed our dinner, &
notwithstanding its simplicity we were utterly at
a loss what to do with it, or how to beg in: we saw
the kettle of Oil, but knew not how we were to eat
it, we saw the Bunches of corn husks in the bark dish,
but knew not what was in them nor how to come at it
we knew not whether our two dishes were to be taken
separate or together, at length after some interrogations
amongst ourselves we explained our difficulty to
the Chief who thereupon took his knife cut open one
of the dumplings & taking off a small piece stuck
the