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Relation Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America.*
of the tobacco plant is also practised during severe thunder storms the tobacco being in such cases cast into the fire , and while burning there , a squaw keeps drumming a piece of iron upon the bottom ot a kettle . This sort of incantation , they conceive charms the lightning , oi propitiates the evil spirit to avert it from them . By the time that we again reached our quarters at the encampment , we found the Indian corn grown up to about a foot m height , so that immediatelset to hoe and weed itwhich was a
mv mother and I were y , severe task for six days . I had fondly flattered myself that after having been so solemnly and ceremoniously installed into the situation ot a son in the family , I should have been exempt from all such servile drudgery , which was in fact the case with some who were similarly Clr BuTpeewash , who had a particular regard for his wife , chose that I somewhat fond of took care
should still assist her , and she , being ease , to lay the most upon my shoulders . She frequently set me to pound corn in a large mortar , till there was scarcely any skin left on my hands ; and when I showed it to her , she only laughed , intimating that in time I would be better used to it , and that my hands would become hard , like her own which certainly were none of the softest . The men , indeed , think it beneath them to do any thing but fish and hunt for the support of their families , and even in this they take no more trouble than is absolutelv necessary ; for frequently after killing the _ game they leave it to to
their squaws to seek and carry home , directing them wnere nnu u , by breaking boughs off , and marking the trees for miles . The squaw having thus discovered the game , brings home the choicest pieces and dresses them immediately for her lord and master , who generally sleeps till he is called up to discuss his supper . When the meal is over he re-ales himself with a pipe of tobacco mixed with the leaves of the shumach shrub . Meantime the rest of the family are seen busy , each fish in steakswhich latter they toast
for himself , in roasting or broiling , upon the end of a stick , as we do bread ; and in my opinion this is a most delicious way of eating roast meat . Sometimes our master would cook a large piece for the whole family , none of whom ever waits till it is all thoroughly done , but as soon as the outside becomes brown each falls to with his knife , and slices away as fast as it roasts ; by which proleasure of their chief gratification ) is considerabl
cedure the p feeding ( y prolonged . AVhen soup is made , that is , when they boil then- fish or meat , they hang up the kettle out of reach of the dogs when all in their turn sup of it , Is they may incline . The total want of salt among them made me at first think everything very insipid , but hunger and habit prevailed over previous tastes , and I soon learned to eat as heartily as Peewash himself , or any of his family . -,. , ___¦ . _ „„ xmicu
About the 6 th of June , Lieut . M'Dougal and a uauer - _ . « utheir escape into Fort Detroit , an event which caused the Indians to look more sharply after those who were left particularly Captain Campbell who was shut up close in a French house . I of ten went to visit him along with Peewash . One -evening he said to me , that he felt very unwell and seemed prepossessed with a notion that he was to die very' then to dissuade him from induling in such gloomy and
soonI tried g dispiritiii" - reflections ; but to my great grief and horror next morning , filing I heard was that lie " had been killed That morning it appeared / a sortie had been made from the fort , under Captain Hopkins of the liano-ers , who attacked a party of the Indians , and killed one of
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Relation Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America.*
of the tobacco plant is also practised during severe thunder storms the tobacco being in such cases cast into the fire , and while burning there , a squaw keeps drumming a piece of iron upon the bottom ot a kettle . This sort of incantation , they conceive charms the lightning , oi propitiates the evil spirit to avert it from them . By the time that we again reached our quarters at the encampment , we found the Indian corn grown up to about a foot m height , so that immediatelset to hoe and weed itwhich was a
mv mother and I were y , severe task for six days . I had fondly flattered myself that after having been so solemnly and ceremoniously installed into the situation ot a son in the family , I should have been exempt from all such servile drudgery , which was in fact the case with some who were similarly Clr BuTpeewash , who had a particular regard for his wife , chose that I somewhat fond of took care
should still assist her , and she , being ease , to lay the most upon my shoulders . She frequently set me to pound corn in a large mortar , till there was scarcely any skin left on my hands ; and when I showed it to her , she only laughed , intimating that in time I would be better used to it , and that my hands would become hard , like her own which certainly were none of the softest . The men , indeed , think it beneath them to do any thing but fish and hunt for the support of their families , and even in this they take no more trouble than is absolutelv necessary ; for frequently after killing the _ game they leave it to to
their squaws to seek and carry home , directing them wnere nnu u , by breaking boughs off , and marking the trees for miles . The squaw having thus discovered the game , brings home the choicest pieces and dresses them immediately for her lord and master , who generally sleeps till he is called up to discuss his supper . When the meal is over he re-ales himself with a pipe of tobacco mixed with the leaves of the shumach shrub . Meantime the rest of the family are seen busy , each fish in steakswhich latter they toast
for himself , in roasting or broiling , upon the end of a stick , as we do bread ; and in my opinion this is a most delicious way of eating roast meat . Sometimes our master would cook a large piece for the whole family , none of whom ever waits till it is all thoroughly done , but as soon as the outside becomes brown each falls to with his knife , and slices away as fast as it roasts ; by which proleasure of their chief gratification ) is considerabl
cedure the p feeding ( y prolonged . AVhen soup is made , that is , when they boil then- fish or meat , they hang up the kettle out of reach of the dogs when all in their turn sup of it , Is they may incline . The total want of salt among them made me at first think everything very insipid , but hunger and habit prevailed over previous tastes , and I soon learned to eat as heartily as Peewash himself , or any of his family . -,. , ___¦ . _ „„ xmicu
About the 6 th of June , Lieut . M'Dougal and a uauer - _ . « utheir escape into Fort Detroit , an event which caused the Indians to look more sharply after those who were left particularly Captain Campbell who was shut up close in a French house . I of ten went to visit him along with Peewash . One -evening he said to me , that he felt very unwell and seemed prepossessed with a notion that he was to die very' then to dissuade him from induling in such gloomy and
soonI tried g dispiritiii" - reflections ; but to my great grief and horror next morning , filing I heard was that lie " had been killed That morning it appeared / a sortie had been made from the fort , under Captain Hopkins of the liano-ers , who attacked a party of the Indians , and killed one of