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Yet I knew an European man that had a child 

 or two by one of these Indian women, and after- 

 wards married a Christian, after which he came to 

 pass away a night with his Indian mistress ; but 

 she made answer that she then had forgot she ever 

 knew him, and that she never lay with another 

 woman's husband, so fell a crying, and took up the 

 ehild she had by him, and went out of the cabin 

 (away from himjjp great disorder. 



The Indian women's work is to cook the victuals 

 for the whole family, and to make mats, baskets, 

 girdles, of possum hair, and such like. They 

 never plant the corn 'amongst us, as they do 

 amongst the Iroquois, who are always at war and 

 hunting ; therefore, the plantation work is left for 

 the women and slaves to perform, and look after ; 

 whilst they are wandring all over the continent 

 betwixt the two bays of Mexico and St Laurence. 



The mats the Indian women make, are of rushes, 

 and about five feet high, and two fathom long, and 

 sewed double, that is, two together ; whereby 

 they become very commodious to lay under our 

 beds, or to sleep on in the summer season in the 

 day time, and for our slaves in the night. 



There are other mats made of flags, which the 

 Tuskeruro Indians make, and sell to the inhab- 

 itants. 



The baskets our neighboring Indians make are 

 all made of a very fine sort of bulrushes, and some- 

 times of silk grass, which they work with figures 

 of beasts, birds, fishes, &c. 



