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slares to relieve them ; but should they be without thein, th<>^ 

 mu$t undergo the same labours as the rest. 



Yet the tribes at this extremity of America are not brutal 

 to their women, like those by the Northern Ocean. The 

 marriages are only to endure during pleasure. They who 

 have children seldom forsake each other. The husband pro- 

 tects his wife even if she is in the wrong ; and if he detects 

 her in any criminal intercourse, all his anger falls upon the 

 paramour, who is cruelly beaten, unless, after the modem 

 fashion of England, he atones by paying for the injury which 

 he has committed. Their jugglers will sometimes bid them 

 send their wives into the woods, to prostitute themselves to the 

 first person they meet. This is plainly a device of these 

 wretches to make amends for the celibacy to which they arc 

 restricted. The husbands readily obey, but there are women 

 in whom natural modesty overpowers superstition, who refuse 

 obedience to their husbands on such an occasion, and set the 

 wizard at defiance. 



Skins are worn by all these tribes. All, except the Ser- 

 ranos, weave mantles of yam, beautifully dyed with many 

 colours, which, when wrapped round the body, reach from 

 the shoulders to the calf of the leg : they have another of 

 the same kind round the waist ; and besides these, a small 

 three-cornered leathern apron, two comers are tied round the 

 waist, the other is past between tle legs, and fastened behind. 

 They tie up their hair behind, with tke points upward, binding 

 it many times above the head with a woollen band ; but they 

 are fond of wearing hats when thoy can procure ihem from 

 the Spaniards. They paint their face red or black, and wear 

 necklaces and bracelets of sky-blue beads. On horseback 

 they use a peculiar sort of frock, which has a slit in the 

 middle, through which they put their heads, and hang down 

 to the knees, or sometimes to the feet. The stockings or 

 boots wliich both sexes use are of the rudest kind ; they con- 



