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she throws her leather or woolen match coat, over 

 her head, which covers the child all over, and se- 

 cures her and it from the injuries of rainy w^eather. 

 The savage women quit all company, and dress 

 not their own victuals during their purgations. 



After they have had several children, they grow 

 strangely out of shape in their bodies ; as for bar- 

 renness, I never knew any of their women that 

 have not children when married. 



The women's dress is, in severe weather, a hai- 

 ry match coat in the nature of a plad, which keeps 

 out the cold, and, as I said before, defends their 

 children from the prejudices of the weather. At 

 other times they have only a sort of flap or apron 

 containing two yards in length, and better than 

 half a yard deep. Sometimes it is a deer skin 

 dressed white, and pointed or slit at the bottom, 

 like fringe. When this is clean it becomes them 

 very well. Others wear blue, or red flaps, made 

 of bays and plains, which they buy of the English, 

 of both which they tuck in the corners, to fasten 

 the garment, and sometimes make it part ^vith a 

 belt. All of them, when ripe, have a small string 

 round the waist, to which another is tied and comes 

 between their legs, where always is a wad of moss 

 against the ospubis, but never any hair is there to 

 be found. Sometimes they wear Indian shoes or 

 moggizons, which are made after the same man- 

 ner as the men's are. 



The hair of their heads is made into a long roll 

 like a horses tail, and bound round with ronoak, 



