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old people are in the same cabin along with them 

 all night, they lie as unconcerned as if they were 

 so many logs of wood. If it be an Indian of their 

 own town or neighborhood, tihatwants a mistress, 

 he comes to none but the girl, who receives what 

 she thinks fit to ask him, and so lies all night with 

 him, without the consent of her parents. 



The Indian traders are those which travel and 

 abide amongst the Indians fora long space of time ; 

 sometimes for a year, two, or three. These men 

 have commonly their Indian wives, whereby they 

 soon learn the Indian tongue, keep a friendship 

 with the savages ; and, besides the satisfaction of 

 a she bed fellow, they find these Indian girls very 

 serviceable to them, on account of dressing their 

 victuals, and instructing them in the affairs and 

 customs of the country. Moreover, such a man 

 gets a great trade with the savages ; for when a 

 person that lives amongst them, is reserved from 

 the conversation of their women, tis impossible for 

 him ever to accomplish his designs amongst that 

 people. 



But one great misfortune which oftentimes attends 

 those that converse with these savage women, is, 

 that they get children by them, which are seldom 

 educated any otherwise than in a state of infideli- 

 ty ; for it is a certain rule and custom, amongst all 

 the savages of America, that I was ever acquain- 

 ted withal, to let the children always fall to the 

 woman's lot; for it often happens, that two Indians 

 that have lived together, as man and wife, in which 

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