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the Nations of the Indians, in these parts of America, except 

 the civilized Kings, who of late have Houses fashioned and 

 built after the manner that the Christians build theirs. 



These Dwclling-IIouses have Benches all round, except 

 where the Door stands, whereon they lay Beasts Skins and 

 Mats made of Rushes, on which they sleep and loll, having 

 no other Beds but these. In one of these Houses several 

 Families commonly live together, all related to one another, 

 for these Savages do not seem so very careful of their Fe- 

 males as the Europeans, having no Bars or Partitions to 

 keep the Men at a distance from the Women. They have 

 other sorts of Cabins made without Windows or Holes at 

 the top, which are their Granaries, where they keep their 

 Corn and Fruit for Winter, or Store-Houses for their Deer or 

 Bever Skins, and all other kind of Merchandize that they deal 

 in. They have Cabbins of another kind made like a Shead, 

 being only covered over head, the rest left open to the Air ; 

 these have Heed Hurdles like Tables to lie and sit on in 

 Summer, and serve for pleasant Banqueting Houses in the 

 extremity of the hot Weather. 



As for Liquors they have little or none made amongst 

 them, neither were they acquainted with any kind of intoxi- 

 cating Liquors before the arrival of the Christians; content- 

 ing themselves with the pure Element, but they are now 

 become very great Drinkers of Rum, and will part with any 

 thing they have to purchase it ; when they are a little mellow, 

 they are the most impatient Creatures living, 'till they have 

 enough to make them quite drunk, and then they are often 

 the most miserable Spectacles in Nature, frequently tumb- 

 ling into the Fire, and burning their Arms and Legs to that 

 degree, that the Sinews are contracted, and they become 

 Cripples all their Lives after; besides several other misfor- 



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