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his Intrigue with no better Conduct, than to be discovered, 

 and pay so dear for his Pleasure. 



The Indians say, that a Woman is a weak Creature, and 

 easily drawn away by the Man's persuasion; for which rea- 

 son they seldom or never lay any blame on the Woman, but 

 the Man (that ought to be Master of his Passions) for per- 

 suading her to it. 



They are of very hale sound Constitutions, and their 

 Breath as sweet as the Air they breath in : The Women are 

 of so tender a Composition, that they seem rather designed 

 for the Bed than Bondage; yet their Love is never of that 

 extensive force or continuance, that any of them run mad 

 or make away with themselves on that score. They never 

 love beyond retrieving their first indifferency, and when 

 slighted, are as ready to untie the Knot at one end, as you 

 are at the other. 



I knew an European Man that lived many Years amongst 

 the Indians, and had a Child by one of their Women, having 

 bought her as they do their Wives, and afterwards married a 

 Christian. Sometimes after he came to the Indian Town, 

 not only to buy Deer-Skins, but likewise to pass away a l^ight 

 with his former Mistress as usual, but she made answer, 

 That she then had forgot that she ever hneiv him, and that 

 she never lay with another Woman s Hushand; so fell a cry- 

 ing, took up the Child she had by him, and went out of the 

 Cabin in great Disorder, although he used all possible means 

 to pacifie her, by offering her Presents of several Toi/s and 

 Rum, but all to no purpose, for she would never see him 

 afterwards, or be reconciled. 



There are several Europeans and other Traders which 

 travel and abide amongst them for a long space of Time, 

 sometimes a Year, two or three, and those Men commonly 

 have their Indian Wives or Mistresses, whereby they soon 



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