i 64 The jDiflireJfes and Adventures 



plicity, if our Women had Skins as white 

 as we; but when we told them, how far 

 they exceeded us in Comple&ion and Per- 

 fons, they thought it ftrange indeed. 



When the Women lye-in here, they 

 keep up very clofe for fome Days, and are 

 not feen by any. Now their Manner of rear- 

 ing their Children, is to let them crawl 

 about on the Ground on their Hands and 

 Knees, till they are able to rife of them- 

 feves, and while they are young, their Pa- 

 rents take no Pains to teach or inftrucT: them 

 in any Thing, tho' they are as great Lovers 

 of their Children as any People in the 

 World. Inftead of Rattles, Dolls, Tops, 

 and Balls, and inch other Things as our 

 Children are wont to play with, thefe Peo- 

 ple give their Children the Heads, Tails, 

 and Paws of wild Beafts to divert them ; and 

 this they do, I fuppofe, on Purpofe to ufe 

 them to thofe Creatures by degrees, know- 

 ing they will, in the Courfe of their Lives 

 have Occafion not to be afraid of encoun- 

 tring them. They are a very prudent and 

 chafte People, and have fo great a Regard 

 to Decency and modeft Behaviour, that in 



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