The first course was a great wooden platter full of sagamite, that is to say, meal of Indian corn boiled in water, and seasoned with fat.

The Master of the Ceremonies filled a spoon with sagamite three or four times, and put it to my mouth as if I were a little child.

He did the same to Monsieur Jollyet.

As a second course he caused a second platter to be brought, on which were three fish.

He took some pieces of them, removed the bones therefrom, and, after blowing upon them to cool them, he put them in our mouths as one would give food to a bird.