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Their 



great 

 Weight ; 



wheo 

 worn. 



Womens 



Bracelets 

 of the 



fame- 



Their 

 Homes ; 



and how 

 featecU 



Mr. WAFER 's T>efcription. 



Ropes of them. Thefe hang ufually one below a- 

 nother, yet in no great Order ; and the Women 

 generally have theirs hanging all on a Heap or 

 Clufter. Whatever Bugles or other fuch Toys they 

 get, they find a Place for them among their Chains ; 

 which the heavier they be, the more ornamental. 

 She is a poor Woman who has not 15 or 20 Pound 

 Weight upon her-, fome have 3c or more ; and 

 the Men have commonly near twice as much in 

 Weight as the Women, according as their Strength 

 is, and their Ability to compafs them. 



When they are in the Houfe, or on Hunting, or 

 going to War, they wear none of thefe Chains ; 

 but only when they would appear in State, upon 

 Occafion of a Feaft, Wedding, Council, or the 

 like. As they go to the Place of Rendezvous, the 

 Women carry them for them, as they do their other 

 Trinkets, in Baskets ; one at each End of a Pole 

 laid a-crofs the Shoulder. When they come to the 

 Place, they put them on, and walk about \ ancL. 

 fometimes will dance in them ; till with the Motion 

 and Weight they iweat extremely. When they 

 fit down to eat, they take them off till they have 

 done. 



The Children have only a few fmall Chains ; and 

 a String or two of Beads or Bugles they will put 

 upon their very Infants. And the Women, befides 

 thefe Chains, have fometimes Bracelets about their 

 Arms, of a fmall Quantity of the farte Materials 

 twifted feveral Times about. Both Meivand Wo- 

 men, when painted, and fet out-wkji all thefe Fine- 

 ries, make no ordinary Figure. 



Their Houfes lie moftly thin and fcattering, ef- 

 pecially in new Plantations, and always by a River 

 fide. But in fome Places there are a pretty many 

 together, fo as to make a Town or Village ; yet 

 not (landing clofe or orderly in Rows or Streets, but 

 difpers'd here and there* like our Villages or Com- 

 mons, 



