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promifes to them, without which, they treat you 

 with the greateft contempt, proudly telling you 

 that you are a liar, an epithet which the Indians 

 have given to the prefent governor, whom 

 they call Oulabe Mingo ^ i. e. the lying 

 chief 



When the women are with child, their huf- 

 bands abdain from fait, and from pork, for fear 

 thofe aliments might do harm to their children. 

 The women never lie-in in their huts; they go 

 into the woods to be delivered, without receiv- 

 ing any afliitance. 



As foon as they are delivered, they waiH their 

 infants. The mothers apply a mafs of earth 

 to the foreheads of their children, to make 

 them have flat heads, and as they get more 

 flrcngth they increafe the bulk, it being a beauty 

 among thefe people to have a flat head. They 

 liever fwaddle their children. . ^^ 



They never wean their children till they are 

 difgufted with their mother's milk, I have ittxi 

 fome children grown up fo as to be able to tell 

 the mother, fet down^ that I may fuckle, and th^ 

 mother im.mediately fat down. Their cradle is 

 made of reeds, they put their children into it fo 

 X 2 that 



