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AMERICA. 



Chap. II. 



ing«,an 1 other 

 artiHciil 

 Deckings of 

 the Indians. 



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young Men and Soldiers wear their Hair long on the one fide , the other being 

 cut (liort like a Screw . other cuts they have as their Fancy leads them, which 

 would torture the Wits of the moft exacT: Barber to imitate. But though they are 

 thus proud of the Hair of their Head, you cannot wooe them to wear it on their 

 Chins, where it no fooner grows, but it is ftubb'd up by the roots, for they count 

 it as an unufeful, cumberfome, and opprobrious excrement, infomuch as they call 

 him an English Mans Baftard that hath but the appearance of a Beard. 

 Tte A P p,- The cfoathing of the Indians is only a pair of Indian Breeches to cover their fe. 

 &$& cret Parts, which is but a piece of Cloth a yard and a half long, but between their 

 Groins, ty'd with a Snakes Skin about their middles, one end hanging down with 

 a flap before, the other like a tail behind. In the Winter time , the more Aged of 

 them wear Leather Drawers, in form like Imfc Troufes,faften'd under their Girdle 

 with Buttons t They wear Shooes likewife of their own making, cut out of zMoofes 

 Hide- many of them wear Skins about them, in form of an Irish Mantle, and of 

 thefe fome are Bears Skins, Moo/es Skins,and Beaver Skins few'd together.others Ot. 

 ter Skins,and %achon Skins • moft of them in the Winter having his deep Furr'd Cat 

 Skin, like a large Muff, which he fliifts to that Arm which lieth moft expos'd to 

 the Wind. Although they are poor, yet is there in them the fparks of natural 

 Pride, which appears in their longing defire after many kind of Ornaments, wear- 

 ing Pendants in their Ears, in form of Birds, Beafts, and Fiflies, Carv'd out of 

 Bone, Shells, and Stone, with long Bracelets of their curious wrought Wampompeage 

 and Mowhackees, which they put about their Necks and Loins ; thefe they count a 

 rare kind of Decking; many of the better fort bearing upon their Cheeks certain 

 Pourtraitures of Beafts, as Bears, Deers, Moo/es, Wolves, arc. fome of Fowls, as of 

 Eagles, Hawks, Ore. which is not a fuperficial Painting, but a certain Incifion, or 

 elfe a raifing of their Skin by a fmall fliarp Inftrument, under which they convey 

 a certain kind of black unchangeable Ink, which makes the defir'd form apparent 

 and permanent. Others have certain round Impreffions down the outfide of their 

 Arms and Breafts, in form of Mullets or Spur-rowels, which they imprint by fear- 

 ing Irons : Whether thefe be Foils to illuftrate their unparallel'd Beauty ( as they 

 deem it) or Arms to blazon their antique Gentility, cannot eafily be determin'd : 

 But a Segamore with a fiumbird in his Ear for a Pendant, a black Hawk on his Head 

 for his Plume, MoUackees for his Gold Chain , good ftore of Wampompeage begirt- 

 ing his Loins, his Bowe in his Hand, his Quiver at his Back, with fix naked Indian 

 Lacquies at his Heels for his Guard, thinks himfelf little Inferior to the great 



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In Winter time they have all manner of Fowls and Beafts of the Land and Wa- 

 ter, Pond-fifh, with Cathaires and other Roots, Indian Beans and Clamms ; in the Sum- 

 Si« y H «5ifir mer they have all manner of Sea-fifh, with all forts of Berries. For the ordering 

 of their Viauals, they Boil or Roaft them, having large Kettles which they Traded 

 for with the French long fince, and do ftill buy of the Englijh as their need requires, 

 before they had fubftantial Earthen Pots of their own making. Their Spits are no 

 other than cloven Sticks, fliarpen'd at one end to thruft into the ground } into 

 thefe cloven Sticks they thruft the Flefli or Fifli they would have Roafted, behem. 

 ming a round fire with a dozen of Spits at a time, turning them as they fee occafi* 

 on. They feldom or never make Bread of their Indian Corn, but feethe it whole 

 like Beans, eating three or four Corns with a mouthful of Fifh or Flefh, fome- 

 times eating Meat firft,and Corns after.fillingthe Chinks with their Broth. In Sum< 

 mer, when their Corn is ffeaz^qouterfquashes is their beft Bread, a Fruit like a young 

 Pumpion : But as all arc fellows at Foot-ball, fo they all meet Friends at the Ket- 



tie, 



Their Diet^ 



Cookery, 

 Meal-times, 



Kettles. 



