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only to change as often as he pleases, but likewise 

 to have as many wives as he is able to maintain. I 

 have often seen that very old Indian men, that have 

 been grandees in their own nation, have had three 

 or four very likely young Indian wives, which I 

 have much wandered at, because, to me, they seem- 

 ed incapacitated to make good use of one of them. 



The young men will go in the night from one 

 house to another to visit the young women, in 

 which sort of rambles they will spend the whole 

 night. In their addresses they find no delays, for 

 if she is willing to entertain the man, she gives 

 him encouragement and grants him admittance ; 

 otherwise she withdraws her face from him, and 

 says, I cannot see you, either you or I must leave 

 this cabin and sleep^ somewhere else this night. 



They are never to boast of their intrigues with 

 the women. If they do, none of the girls value 

 them ever after, or admit of their company in 

 their beds. This proceeds not on the score of 

 reputation, for there is no such thing, on that ac- 

 count, known amongst them ; and although we 

 may reckon them the greatest libertines and most 

 extravagant in their embraces, yet they retain and 

 possess a modesty that requires those passions 

 never to be divulged. 



The trading girls, after they have led that course 

 of life, for several years, in which time they scarce 

 ever have a child ; (for they have an art to destroy 

 the conception, and she that brings a child in this 

 station, is accounted a fool, and her reputation is 





