. They also roast their fish upon a hot hearth, covering them with
hot ashes and coals, then take them out, the scales and skin they strip
clean off, so they eat the flesh, leaving the bones and entrails to be
thrown away.

They never serve up different sorts of victuals in one dish; as roast
and boiled fish and flesh; but always serve them up in several vessels.

They bake their bread either in cakes before the fire, or in loaves on a
warm hearth, covering the loaf first with leaves, then with warm ashes,
and afterwards with coals over all.

[Illustration: _Lith. of Ritchie & Dunnavant Richmond._
Tab. 9 Book 3 Pag. 139]

TAB. IX. Represents the manner of their roasting and barbecueing, with
the form of their baskets for common uses, and carrying fish.

Sec. 15. Their food is fish and flesh of all sorts, and that which
participates of both; as the beaver, a small kind of turtle, or
terrapins, (as we call them,) and several species of snakes. They
likewise eat grubs, the nymphae of wasps, some kinds of scarabaei, cicadae,
&c. These last are such as are sold in the markets of Fess, and such as
the Arabians, Lybians, Parthians and Aethiopians commonly eat; so that
these are not a new diet, though a very slender one; and we are informed
that St. John was dieted upon locusts and wild honey.

They make excellent broth of the head and umbles of a deer, which they
put into the pot all bloody. This seems to resemble the _jus nigrum_ of
the Spartans, made with the blood and bowels of a hare. They eat not the
brains with the head, but dry them and reserve them to dress their
leather with.

They eat all sorts of peas, beans, and other pulse, both parched and
boiled. They make their bread of the Indian corn, wild oats, or the seed
of the sunflower. But when they eat their bread, they eat it alone, and
not with their meat.

They have no salt among them, but for seasoning use the ashes of
hickory, stickweed, or some other wood or plant affording a salt ash.

They delight much to feed on roasting ears; that is, the Indian corn,
gathered green and milky, before it is grown to its full bigness, and
roasted before the fire in the ear. For the sake of this diet, which
they love exceedingly, they are very careful to procure all the several
sorts of Indian corn before mentioned, by which means they contrive to
prolong their season. And indeed this is a very sweet and pleasing food.

They have growing near their towns, pe