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paces the children were thrown upon the ground, 

 thofe who carried the litter trampling upon them, 

 fo that when the procefiion arrived at the temple, 

 their little bodies were quite torn to pieces. 



While they were interring the corpfe of the wo- 

 man-chief in the temple, the fourteen perfons 

 defined to die were undreffed and feated on the 

 ground before the gate, having each two Indians 

 about him, one feated on his knees, and the other 

 holding his hands behind him. The cords were 

 pa(Ted round their necks, their, heads were covered 

 with the ftin of a roe-buck, and after being made to 

 fwallow three pieces of tobacco, and to drink a 

 glafs of water, the relations of the woman-chief, 

 who fung all the time, drew the cords at each 

 end till they were ftrangled. After which all the 

 carcaOes were thrown together into a ditch and 

 covered with earth, 



.When the grand chief dies, his nurfe, if fiill 

 alive, mud die likewife. But it has often happen- 

 ed, that the French not being able to prevent this 

 barbarity, have obtained leave to baptize the chil- 

 dren who were to be ftrangled, and thus have 

 prevented their accompanying thofe in whofe 

 l^onour they were itrangled, to their pretended 

 paradife. 



I know no nation on the continent, where the 

 fex is more diforderly than in this. They are even 

 forced by the grand chief and his fubalterns to prof- 

 titute themfelves to all comers, and a woman is , not 

 the lefs e deemed for being public. Though po- 

 lygamy is permitted and the number of wives 

 which a man may have is unlimited, yet every one, 



