[265] Wood says of the Indian women: “Their corn being ripe, they gather it, and drying it hard in the Sun, conveigh it to their barnes, which be great holes digged in the ground in forme of a brasse pot, seeled with rinds of trees, wherein they put their corne, covering it from the inquisitive search of their gurmundizing husbands, who would eate up both their allowed portion, and reserved seed, if they knew where to finde it. But our hogges having found a way to unhindge their barne doores, and robbe their garners, they are glad to implore their husbands helpe to roule the bodies of trees over their holes, to prevent these pioneers, whose theevery they as much hate as their flesh.” (_Prospect_, p. 81.) Mather also, in enumerating the points of resemblance between the Indians and the Israelites, (_Magnalia_, B. III. part iii.) says: “They have, too, a great unkindness for our _swine_; but I suppose that is because the hogs devour the clams, which are a dainty with them.”
[266] See Ellis’s _Red Man and White Man_, p. 148; also, _infra_, 175, _n._
[267] This Sachem has already been sufficiently referred to (_Supra_, p. 11.) All that is known concerning him can be found in Drake’s _Book of the Indians_, (ed. 1851), pp. 107-9.
[268] Morton’s neighbors at Wessaguscus were William Jeffrey, John Bursley and such others of the Robert Gorges expedition of 1623 as still remained there. (_Supra_, 4, 24, 30.) See also _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._ 1878, p. 198.
[270] “Frumenty, _n._ [Also _furmenty_ and _fumety_; from Lat. _frumentum_]. Food made of wheat boiled in milk, and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, &c.” _Webster._
[272] In reference to this passage, Mr. Francis Parkman writes: “I have searched my memory in vain for anything in the early French writers answering to Morton’s statement. I don’t think that Cartier, Champlain, Biard, Lescarbot or Le Jeune, the principal writers before 1635, make the extraordinary assertions in question. In fact, as there were no Spaniards in Canada, and likely to be none on French vessels going there, Indians of those parts would hardly have the opportunity of distinguishing between them by smell or otherwise. Indeed, they did not know the existence of such a nation.”