DESCRIPTION 
OF AN 
INDIAN SQUA. 
Ow (gentle Reader) having trefpaffed upon your 
A. \ patience a long while in the perufing of thefe rude 
Obfervations, I fhall, to make you amends, prefent you by 
way of Divertifement, or Recreation, with a Coppy of 
Verfes made fometime fince upon the Picture of a young 
1 The author has something to the same effedt in his Voyages, p. 124; but 
Wood's account of the Indian women (New-England's Prospeft, part ii. chap, 
xx.) is far better worth reading. Both appreciated, in one way or another, their 
savage neighbors. Wood has a pleasant touch at the last. "These women," he 
says, " resort often to the English houses, where fares cum paribus congregates, 
— in sex, I mean, — they do somewhat ease their misery by complaining, and 
seldom part without a relief. If her husband come to seek for his squaw, and 
begin to bluster, the English woman betakes her to her arms, which are the war- 
like ladle and the scalding liquors, threatning blistering to the naked runaway, 
who is soon expelled by such liquid comminations. In a word, to conclude this 
woman's history, their love to the English hath deserved no small esteem ; ever 
presenting them something that is either rare or desired, — as strawberries, hurt- 
leberries, rasberries, gooseberries, cherries, plumbs, fish, and other such gifts as 
their poor treasury yields them " (/. c). And, if Lechford's Newes from New 
England (/. supra c, p. 103) can be trusted, the savages became " much the 
kinder to their wives by the example of the English." 
