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8. Sho ne si. This is a kind of fruit growing in pods, and very much resembling beans. The weed providing it g rows in springs. This fruit must be boiled full twenty four hours, or it will prove a most deadly poison. But after being sufficiently boiled, dried, and pounded, it formed meal, or flour very much resembling, in taste that of wheat, and might be used for all the purposes of flour. It was also made into mush. But after eating this they must eat no berries or any kind of fruit for 24 hours, lest it should kill them.

9. Ku le.  This is a small yellow acorn growing on a species of Red Oak. It is said that all acorns will make bread, but the above kind are preferable. The acorns were dried, hulled and pounded. The meal was then put into a basket, and a cloth tied over the top. The whole was then set in such a situation that water dropped on the cloth all night. This soaked into the meal. & then ran out through the bottom of the basket. By thus, leaching the meal, they took out the strong bitter taste of the acorn, and rendered it pleasant for bread.
10. Persimmons. These when ripe, after the seeds were taken out, were pounded in a mortar. The substance was then taken, and kneaded with the hands like dough, made into cakes, - put on a scaffold in the sun, - dried, and put away for future use, or used as convenient.
11. In the same manner they^made bread of ripe peaches, only in this case, they not only took out the seed, but also took off the skin.   Their bread of all kinds, they ate with bears oil, or oil of some other kind, by dipping the bread in the oil, i.e., when they had oil. They also dipped dried venison in oil as they ate it.   They often adopted various

methods to render their bread delicious, by mixing boiled beans - the meat of Black walnuts, or chestnuts, or whortleberries, or some other pleasant fruit with the dough before cooking it. There is yet another kind of food growing in southern swamps, highly esteemed by the Indians. The Cherokees call this Ta la. It abounds in Florida and forms the principal food of the Seminoles. This is a species of Cane but has no joints, - grows four & five feet high, and on the top has a ball which contains the food. The shells are hard, like those of a goard, and are used by the Indians for rattling goards. The food - delicious