If It Rains,
She Throws Her Leather Or Woollen Match-Coat, Over Her Head,
Which Covers The Child All Over, And Secures Her And It
From The Injuries Of Rainy Weather.
The Savage Women quit all Company,
and dress not their own Victuals, during their Purgations.
After they have had several Children, they grow strangely out of Shape
in their Bodies; As for Barrenness, I never knew any of their Women,
that have not Children when marry'd.
{Indian Womens Habit.}
The Womens Dress is, in severe Weather, a hairy Match-coat
in the Nature of a Plad, which keeps out the Cold, and (as I said before)
defends their Children from the Prejudices of the Weather. At other times,
they have only a sort of Flap or Apron containing two Yards in Length,
and better than half a Yard deep. Sometimes, it is a Deer-Skin dress'd white,
and pointed or slit at the bottom, like Fringe. When this is clean,
it becomes them very well. Others wear blue or red Flaps
made of Bays and Plains, which they buy of the English, of both which
they tuck in the Corners, to fasten the Garment, and sometimes make it fast
with a Belt. All of them, when ripe, have a small String round the Waste,
to which another is tied and comes between their Legs, where always
is a Wad of Moss against the Os pubis; but never any Hair
is there to be found: Sometimes, they wear Indian Shooes, or Moggizons,
which are made after the same manner, as the Mens are.
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