the chaf leaves the Grain then van it and it is fit for use One Quart of the Grain boil[']d in two Gallons of any Kind of Broth or in the same Quantity of water with an Ounce of Grease till it comes to consistence of porridge or rather thinner is in General as much as any man will Eat in a day[.] [T]heir is an other Way of preapareing oats, that it is collect[']d in the same way as the other but before it is Ripe, and then drided in a Kettle stiring it about continually untill it leaves the chaff then van'd as the other this is called Roast[']d Oats and in General it requires at least three pints of this to answer to two of the other besides this they Eat a kind of Excressence that grows on Rocks call'd by the natives trippe de Roche and a species of wood call'd by the same people Bois tors and the sap of Birch, And Aspine[.] Their manner of life is to be wandering continually from place to place and regulat[']d by the seasons which in the same way regulates their food in Winter they Keep in woods and live on Animals from about the middle of April untill the middle of June they Keep along Rivers and at first live principally on Game then on fish which they spear in the Rapids part of the summer they live on flesh and fish as they can get till the Rice is Ripe, which with Game is their principal food till the Ice takes[.]

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