What is "whortleberries"

Usage examples of "whortleberries".

At times they helped gather whortleberries as food for the others, but they looked for Indians or game, intending to shoot in either case.

The stronger of them helped the men to gather more whortleberries, as it was easy to see that the food they had with them would never last until they reached Fort Penn, should they ever reach it.

Where the trees were pines and the ground a carpet of needles and young whortleberries the going was good, but when whins intervened or burnt heather or the matted stumps of fallen oaks, and the moon was shut out by thick undergrowth, it was necessary to walk as delicately as Agag.

The food that they had brought from the Wyoming fort was almost exhausted, and the wild whortleberries were far from sustaining.

With the steak whortleberries were always served, which of course helped to make it appreciated.