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board upon his back^his knees refting upoii 
chc foot beneath, then putting the ftrap of 
leather upon their forc-hcad with the infant 
banging at their back home they trudge i 
What other ceremonies chcy ufe more than 
dying of them with a liquor of boiled 
/^?cj^-Birkj and their throwing of them into 
the water if they fufpcd the Child to be 
gotten by any other Nation, to (cc if he 
will fwim, if he iwim' they acknowledge 
him for their own, their names they give 
them when they are men grown, and covet 
much to be called after our Englijh manner, 
Kobin^ Harry ^ Phillip and the like, very in- 
dulgent they are to their Children , and 
their children fomctimes to their Parents, 
but if they live fo long that they become 
a burden to them, they will either ftarvc 
them or bury them alive, as it was fuppofed 
an Indian did his Mother at Cafco in i66p. 
Their Apparel before the Englijh came 
amongft them, was the skins of wild Beafts 
with the hair on , Buskins of D^erj skin 
or Moofe dreft and drawn with lines into 
feveral works, the lines being coloured with 
yellow, blew or red^ Pumps too they have, 
made of tough skins without folcs* In the 
winter when the fnow will bear thcm^ they 
fatten to their feet their Cnow fliooes which 
arc made like a large Racket w^e play at 
