notwithstanding which it is a prevailing humor
among them, not to taste any strong drink at all, unless they can get
enough to make them quite drunk, and then they go as solemnly about it
as if it were part of their religion.

Sec. 18. Their fashion of sitting at meals is on a mat spread on the
ground, with their legs lying out at length before them, and the dish
between their legs; for which reason they seldom or never sit more than
two together at a dish, who may with convenience mix their legs together
and have the dish stand commodiously to them both, as appears by the
figure.

The spoons which they eat with do generally hold half a pint; and they
laugh at the English for using small ones, which they must be forced to
carry so often to their mouths that their arms are in danger of being
tired before their belly.

[Illustration: _Lith. of Ritchies & Dunnavant Richmond._
Tab. 10. Book 3 Pag. 141]

TAB. X. Is a man and his wife at dinner.

No. 1. Is their pot boiling with homony and fish in it.

2. Is a bowl of corn, which they gather up in their fingers, to
feed themselves.

3. The tomahawk, which he lays by at dinner.

4. His pocket, which is likewise stripped off, that he may be at
full liberty.

5. A fish. }
} Both ready for dressing.
6. A heap of roasting ears.}

7. The gourd of water.

8. A cockle shell, which they sometimes use instead of a spoon.

9. The mat they sit on.

All other matters in this figure are understood by the foregoing and
following descriptions.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE TRAVELING, RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT OF THE INDIANS.

Sec. 19. Their travels they perform altogether on foot, the fatigue of
which they endure to admiration. They make no other provision for their
journey but their gun or bow, to supply them with food for many hundred
miles together. If they carry any flesh in their marches, they barbecue
it, or rather dry it by degrees, at some distance over the clear coals
of a wood fire; just as the Charibees are said to preserve the bodies of
their kings and great men from corruption. Their sauce to this dry meat,
(if they have any besides a good stomach,) is only a little bear's oil,
or oil of acorns; which last they force out by boiling the acorns in a
strong lye. Sometimes also in their travels each man takes with him a
pint or quart of rockahomonie, that is, the finest Indian corn par