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next world. It is the dead man's relations by blood, 

 as his uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, sons and 

 daughters, that mourn in good earnest, the wives 

 thinking their duty is discharged, and that they 

 are become free, when their husband is dead ; so 

 as fast as they can look out for another to supply 

 his place. 



As for the Indian women which now happen in 

 my way, when young, and at maturity, they are 

 as fine shaped creatures, take them generally, as 

 any in the universe. They are of a tawny com- 

 plexion, their eyes very brisk and amorous, their 

 smiles afford the finest composure a face can pos- 

 sess, their hands are of the finest make, with 

 small, long fingers, and as soft as their cheeks, 

 and their whole bodies of a smooth nature. They 

 are not so uncouth or unlikely as we suppose them, 

 nor are they strangers or not proficients in the soft 

 passion. They are, most of them, mercenary, ex- 

 cept the married women, w r ho sometimes bestow 

 their favors also to some or other, in their hus- 

 band's absence; for which they never ask any re- 

 ward. As for the report, that they are never found 

 unconstant, like the Europeans, it is wholly false ; 

 for were the old world and the new one put into a 

 pair of scales (in point of constancy) it would be a 

 hard matter to discern which was the heavier. As 

 for the trading girls, which are those designed to 

 get monev by their natural parts, these are dis- 

 cernable by the cut of their hair ; their tonsure 

 differing from all others of that nation, who are 





