[245]. On Indian agriculture: Bartram, Travels, 509; Jones, op. cit., 296-320; Timberlake, 68.
[246]. Consult on construction of dwelling houses: Jones, op. cit., 35, 39; Bartram, Travels, 365; Timberlake, 84.
[247]. Maize or com was also the dependence of the pioneer whites. Its importance in the history of the West cannot be overly emphasized. See Jones, op. cit., 297-301; Mooney, Myths, 421, 423, 471, 481.
[248]. Jones describes this stone, op. cit., 315-20.
[249]. Accord, Bartram, Travels, 38.
[250]. Wild strawberry vines matted the earth where there were barrens; the ripe “berries covered the ground as with a red cloth.” (F. A. Michaux, 1803.)
[251]. There was the wild or pig potato, indigenous and ancestors of the cultivated potato, and the artichoke.
[252]. Ante. p. 4.
[253]. For hot-house, see Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 35: “A little hut joined to the house, in which a fire is continually kept, and the heat so great that cloaths are not to be borne the coldest day in the winter.” Also, Jones, op. cit., 16.
[254]. There is no difficulty in finding ample corroboration of Adair’s description of the lower class of Indian traders. One of the best summaries is that of Rivers in his Topics in the History of South Carolina: “Many were dissolute and worthless, and were despised even by the savages. Many conciliated favor and insured safety by adopting Indian habits and marrying among them.”