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ferve in their cabbin after the obfequies are over, a 

 mourning the laws of which are very fevere. They 

 muft have their hair cut off, and their faces black- 

 ed they muft have their head in an erect pofturc, 

 their head wrapped up in a covering, without look- 

 ing upon any one, making any vifits, or eating 

 any thing hot but muft deprive themfelves of all 

 pieafures, having fcarce any cloathing on their 

 bodies, and never warming themfelves, even in 

 the midft of winter. After this grand mourning 

 they begin another more moderate, which lafts 

 for two or three years longer, but which may yet 

 be mitigated a little; but nothing prefcribed is 

 ever difpenfed with, without the permidion of the 

 cabbin, to which the widow and widower belong--- 

 and thefe permiflions as well as the conclufion of 

 the mourning, are always attended with a feaft. 



Laftly, they are not at liberty, by the laws of 

 widowhood, to engage in fecond nuptials, without 

 the confent of thole on whom they depend. And 

 mould there be no hufband found for the widow, 

 me is very little concerned about it, in cafe fhe has 

 male children old enough to provide for her fup- 

 port ; fhe may ftill remain in the irate of widow- 

 hood without fear of being reduced to want. If 

 fhe has a mind to marry again, fhe is at liberty to 

 chufe for herfelf, and the perfon (he marries be- 

 comes the father to her f armer children, enters into 

 all the rights, and is fubjecl: to all the obligations of 

 the fir ft hufband. A hufband never weeps for 

 the lofs of a wife 5 tears in the opinion of the In- 

 dians, being locked upon as unworthy of men 5 

 but this does not hold true amongft all the nations. 



The women, on the contrary, bewail their huf- 

 bands a year, are eternally invoking him, and fill 

 the villages with their cries and lamentations, and 



efpecially 



