The employment to which the Indian slave was put by his Indian owner depended largely upon the section in which the tribe resided. Their use as domestic servants was probably common. Father Fremin tells of a young Iroquois woman who possessed more than twenty personal slaves, whose duty it was to get wood, draw water, cook, and do all other services which their mistress might direct. On the death of the owner who was a Christian, her mother desired that the missionary instruct a sick slave in his religion, so that after death the slave might attend her former mistress in Heaven and perform the same services for her as she had done on earth.[55] Among the Illinois, La Hontan found that two hours after sunset, the slaves covered the fires in the lodge before going to rest.[56] Bartram mentions a southern chief, who had attending him as slaves many Yamasee captives who had been captured by him when young.[57] Le Jeune found the Huron and Ottawa Indian slaves engaged in minor household duties.[58] In the northwest, enslaved women and children performed the same labor.[59] One other use to which the young women and girls were put, if they did not marry into the tribe, was to serve as the mistresses of their owners.[60] All the tribes east of the Mississippi River and south of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes practiced agriculture to some extent. They all raised corn, beans, squashes and melons.[61] Consequently the captive slaves worked in the fields with the members of the tribe, caring for the maize and vegetables. The Iroquois used their captives in tilling the fields.[62] Captain John Smith, in speaking of Powhatan’s tribe, states that they made war, “not for lands and goods, but for women and children, whom they put not to death, but kept as captives, in which captivity they were made to do service.”[63] A part of this service consisted in caring for the crops. The Indians of North Carolina kept their slaves at work in the fields.[64] Soto found that the Indians among whom he passed had many foreign slaves whom they employed in tilling the ground.[65] Among the Illinois, La Hontan found the women slaves employed in sowing and reaping.[66] Slaves were also employed in mining, hunting, fishing, and whatever menial tasks needed to be done about the camp. But few of the tribes worked mines to any extent, yet Joutel, 1687, found the Cenis Indians working slaves in their mines.[67] Hunting and fishing were more important occupations, since they furnished food for the tribe. Among the Iroquois,[68] Huron,[69] Ottawa,[70] and Illinois,[71] such work was partly done by the slaves who often worked with their masters. In the northwest the slave assisted his master in paddling, fishing and hunting. He cut wood, carried water, aided in building houses, etc.[72]