1698.] BONDS OF MARRIAGE. 291 



Leaves, and so ill built, that the Rain never fails to pour in 

 on all sides. Their Fire is in the middle, and they lie all 

 about higiedy pigledy in the Ashes. I will not affirm that 

 the two Sexes are always chast there, but 'tis certain these 

 BarbarianS; as barbarous as they are, profess not only to 

 confine themselves within the Bonds of Marriage, but also to 

 punish Adultery severely. They cudgel all those to Death, 

 that have been taken in the Fact, as they likewise do Thieves 

 and Assassins. I hove read somewhere, that they cut off one 

 Joint of the little Fingers^ of their Women, when they offer'd 

 to remarry, and so continu'd to do Joint by Joint where they 

 marry'd several Husbands ; but Persons worthy of Credit, 

 that had liv'd among them divers years, assur'd me the thing 

 was somewhat otherwise, for that they cut off only one Joint 

 of the Women's little Fingers when they first marry'd, and 

 which was done in token of their Subjection. The Men may 

 take several Women, but for the most part they have but one, 

 especially aljout the Gape. The Wives have somewhat yet 

 more ugly and more forbidding Phyz's than their Husbands, 

 for over and above that they are to the full as black and 

 nasty as they, they have moreover the loathsom Custom to 

 wear several rounds of raw Guts about their Necks and Legs 

 in lieu of ISTecklaces and Garters, which being green and cor- 

 rupted, stink abominably." 



They wear likewise Cockle shells, and bits of Coral and 



1 " When a Man oi* Woman dies, all the Friends to the third degree 

 of Consanguinity must, by an ancient custom, cut off the little Finger 

 of their left Hand, to be bury'd with the Dead in the Grave ; but if the 

 Deceased had in his Life any Cattel, and leaves some Relations to whom 

 they might come by Inheritance, they must cut off a Joynt from each 

 little Finger before they can take the Cattel ; for the Sick cainiot give 

 away the least thing on his Death-bed, from those to whom it falls by 

 inheritance." (Ogilby, I. c, p. 693.) 



2 '' INlany of them wear as an Ornament, the Guts of Beasts, fresh 

 and stinking, drawn two or three times one through another, about 

 their Necks, and the like about their legs." (Ogilby, I. c. p. ;")91.) 



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