( U.6 ) 



and turbulent flate of youth \ but on one hand 

 the Indians are naturally quiet and betimes matters 

 of themfelves, and are likewife more under the 

 guidance of reafon than other men •, and on the 

 other hand, their natural difpofition, efpecially in 

 the northern nations, does not incline them to de- 

 bauchery. They however have fome ufages in 

 which no fort of regard is paid to modefty ; but 

 it appears that in this, fuperftition has a much 

 greater uhare than a depravation of heart. 



The Hurons when we firfb began to frequent 

 them were more lafcivious as well as more brutal 

 in their pkafures. For young people of both fexes 

 abandoned themfelves, without either fhame or re- 

 morfe, to all kinds of diflblutenefs, and it was 

 chiefly amongft thefe that it was thought no 

 crime in a girl to proftitute herfelf ; their parents 

 were the fhft to engage them in this vice, and 

 hufbands were feen to proftitute their wives, for 

 vile interefl. Several of them never married,' but 

 took women to ferve them to ufe their own ex- 

 preffton as companions, and the only difference 

 they reckoned between thefe concubines and their 

 lawful fpoufes, was in their being free from any 

 engagement with the former ; befides, their chil- 

 dren were on the fame footing with the others, 

 which qccafioned no fort of inconvenience in a 

 country where there was nothing to inherit. 



The nations in thefe parts are not diftinguilh- 

 e$ by their habit : the men in hot weather 

 have often no garment, except a fhirt : In win«r 

 ter they wear more or fewer cloaths, in propor- 

 tion to the climate. They wear on their feet a 

 fort of focks ? made of deer-fkin drred in th$ 



fmoke % 



