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dowish bread


Title Dowish bread
Caption Bread eaten onboard ships, also known as hardtack.
Source Internet
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Type Photograph
Origin Internet
Occurrences

dowish bread

Additional Notes

Dow bread / dowish bread – In the sections on “wickonzowr, called by us peaze” and “chestnuts,” Hariot refers to the Native Americans taking the substances and making a lumpy ‘dough-bread’ of some sort. - Matt