Though many times they would eat that, that a hog or a dog would
hardly touch; yet by that God strengthened them to be a scourge
to His people.

The chief and commonest food was ground nuts. They eat also
nuts and acorns, artichokes, lilly roots, ground beans, and
several other weeds and roots, that I know not.

They would pick up old bones, and cut them to pieces at the
joints, and if they were full of worms and maggots, they would
scald them over the fire to make the vermine come out, and then
boil them, and drink up the liquor, and then beat the great ends
of them in a mortar, and so eat them. They would eat horse's
guts, and ears, and all sorts of wild birds which they could
catch; also bear, venison, beaver, tortoise, frogs, squirrels,
dogs, skunks, rattlesnakes; yea, the very bark of trees; besides
all sorts of creatures, and provision which they plundered from
the English. I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful
power of God in providing for such a vast number of our enemies
in the wilderness, where there was nothing to be seen, but from
hand to mouth. Many times in a morning, the generality of them
would eat up all they had, and yet have some further supply
against they wanted. It is said, "Oh, that my People had
hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways, I should soon
have subdued their Enemies, and turned my hand against their
Adversaries" (Psalm 81.13-14). But now our perverse and evil
carriages in the sight of the Lord, have so offended Him, that
instead of turning His hand against them, the Lord feeds and
nourishes them up to be a scourge to the whole land.