they driven from that little they had in store, into the Woods in the midst of Winter; and yet how to ad∣miration did the Lord preserve them for his ho∣ly ends, and the destruction of many still amongst the English! strangely did the Lord provide for them; that I did not see (all the time I was a∣mong them) one Man, Woman, or Child, die with hunger.
Though many times they would eat that, that a Hog or a Dog would hardly touch; yet by that God strengthned them to be a securge to his People.
The chief and commonest food was Ground-nuts: They eat also Nuts and Acorns, Harty choaks, Lilly roots, Ground beans, and several other weeds and roots, that I know nor.
They would pick up old bones, and cut them to piec∣es at the joynts, and if they were full of wormes and magots, they would scald them over the fire to make the vermine come out, and then boile them, and drink up the Liquor, and then beat the great end, of them in a Morter, and so eat them. They would eat Horses guts, and ears, and all sorts of wild Birds which they could catch: also Bear, Venmson, Bea∣ver, Tortois, Frogs, Squirrels, Dogs, Skunks, Rattle-snakes; yea, the very Bark of Trecs; be∣sides all sorts of creatures, and provision which they plundered from the English. I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God, in providing for such a vast number of our Enemies