DESCRIPTION 



OF AN 



INDIAN SQUA. 1 



NOw (gentle Reader) having trefpaffed upon your 

 patience a long while in the perufing of thefe rude 

 Obfervations, I mail, to make you amends, prefent you by 

 way of Divertifement, or Recreation, with a Coppy of 

 Verfes made fometime fince upon the Picture of a young 



1 The author has something to the same effe<5t in his Voyages, p. 124; but 

 Wood's account of the Indian women (New-England's Prospect, part ii. chap, 

 xx.) is far better worth reading. Both appreciated, in one way or another, their 

 savage neighbors. Wood has a pleasant touch at the last. " These women," he 

 says, " resort often to the English houses, where fares cum paribus congregate, 

 — in sex, I mean, — they do somewhat ease their misery by complaining, and 

 seldom part without a relief. If her husband come to seek for his squaw, and 

 begin to bluster, the English woman betakes her to her arms, which are the war- 

 like ladle and the scalding liquors, threatning blistering to the naked runaway, 

 who is soon expelled by such liquid comminations. In a word, to conclude this 

 woman's history, their love to the English hath deserved no small esteem ; ever 

 presenting them something that is either rare or desired, — as strawberries, hurt- 

 leberries, rasberries, gooseberries, cherries, plumbs, fish, and other such gifts as 

 their poor treasury yields them " (/. c). And, if Lechford's Newes from New 

 England (/. supra c, p. 103) can be trusted, the savages became "much the 

 kinder to their wives by the example of the English." 



