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 carry the corn, acorns, mortars, and all the bag and baggage.'

"Now to prove to you they ate dogs, listen to what Henry Hudson said about the Algonquin Indians on the Hudson:

I sailed to the shore in one of their canoes with an old man, who was chief of a tribe consisting of forty men and seventeen women; these I saw there in a house well constructed of oak-bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof. It contained a great quantity of maize, or Indian corn, and beans of last year's growth, and there lay near the house for the purpose of drying, enough to load three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served in well made wooden bowls: two men were also dispatched at once with bows and arrows in quest of game. Soon after they brought in a pair of pigeons which they had shot. They likewise killed a fat dog, and skinned it in great haste with shells which they had got out of the water.'

"There's your dog feast," said Turner, "and