NORTHERN OCEAN. 
This ceremony, in either cafe, confifts of neither 
more nor lefs than a good drubbing, and turn. 
ing the woman out of doors; telling her to go 
to her paramour, or relations, according to the 
nature of her crime. 
_ Providence is very kind in caufing thefe peo- 
ple to be lefs prolific than the inhabitants of civi- 
lized nations; it is very uncommon to fee one 
woman have more than five or fix children; and 
thefe are always born at fucha diftance from one 
another, that the youngeft is generally two or 
three years old before another is brought into the 
world. ‘Their eafy births, and the ceremonies 
which take place on thofe occafions, have already 
been mentioned ; | fhall therefore only obferve 
here, that they make no ufe of cradles, like the 
Southern Indians, but only tie a lump of mofs 
between their legs, and always carry their chil- 
dren at their backs, next the fkin, till they are 
able to walk. Though their method of treating 
young children is in this refpect the moft uncouth 
and awkward lever faw, there are few among 
- them that can be called deformed, and not onein 
fifty who is not bow-legged. 
There are certain periods at which they never 
permit the women to abide in the fame tent with 
their hufbands. At fuch times they are obliged 
to make a {mall hovel for themfelves at fome dif- 
tance from the other tents. As this is an uni- 
verfal cuflom among all the tribes, it is alfo a piece 
of policy with the women, upon any difference 
with 
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