The only pity was that the tree was so scarce that the demand for this concoction very greatly exceeded the supply.

We therefore invented another drink--which we also called coffee--and which was composed of corn, barley, maize, dried peaches, sweet potatoes, and miscellaneous ingredients.

My own favourite beverage was abundant--especially after heavy rain! The question of clothing was now beginning to be a very serious one.

We were reduced to mending our trousers, and even our jackets with leather.
For the tanning of this leather the old and feeble were employed, who, as soon as the enemy approached, fled, and as soon as they had passed, returned to their tanning.

At a later period the English had a trick of taking the hides out of the tanning tubs and cutting them to pieces, in the hope, I suppose, that we should then be compelled to go barefoot and unclothed.
It was to obviate such a catastrophe as this that the custom of _Uitschudden_[96] now came into force.