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which may [words crossed out] consist of
the bark which they cut off wood
a large knot or protuberance of
a tree or they may for the purpose
hollow out a piece of wooed. This
vesssel filled with water
they put hot stones in it till
the water becomes quite hot.
Certain grass seeds are also
ground into meal from which
they bake bread a sort of cake.
There is a seed growing in a sort
of pine apple which they look on
as very nutricious, but it contains
a certain quantity of poison which
acts as an emetic. This they know
to extract by some operation in the
water in which it is kept for some
time. A lad told me one that
when a little boy he & others took a
quantity of the nuts from the women's camp