In their Common way of life their food is the Animals & Vegitables before discribed, but is Chiefly Vegetables and Fish of which they have abundance and their Cookery is simply baking and broiling, having no vessel that will stand fire Nor do they understand the Method of Converting Clay to that use, however they lose little or none of the Substance of their food by baking, and Fish Dressd in that manner are preferable to boild.

The Men and Weomen eat seperate, and for this reason each Family has two houses except a Man Chooses to reside in his Wifes house and then each take one end.

The Children eat with the Mother till their restrictions are taken off, tho she Cannot eat of the Food which is the Childs nor that it has toutchd nor must the Childs provisions enter the House by the same entrance at which the Mothers come in at and in travelling they Must have seperate Canoes for the Men & Weomens food, of which the Children may partake.

The Weomen have their own particular trees for Bread, and can eat no other and Must have particular People to Catch fish for them and should a Shark, Turtle, Porpoise, Albicore, Dolphin or Cavally, which are Sacred Fish, be Caught by their Fishermen they Cannot Eat of them but may dispose of them to whom they Please.

It has been supposed by Most Former Voyagers that they were also forbidden to eat Pork but in this they were most certainly Mistaken, for if any Woman has an Inclination to keep her Hogs Pennd up and prevent them from feeding on any other ground then their own they may eat pork, but as this is troublesom (and should the hogs get loose, and run on the land of their Male relations they become unfit for them to eat, or should any of their Male relations or the Chiefs toutch the Hogs it is the same) and attended with difficulty, they seldom attempt it as they have the Greatest Variety and abundance of fine Fish yet nevertheless they often kill and eat pork under that denomination, taking Care to keep such Men as are not of their retinue out of the Secret, their Servants always agreeing oh this score are sure not to want for part of what the Mistress posesses.

The Men may partake of any of the Weomens Food but must not toutch any but what is given them and tho they enter the eating

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