The Girls At 12 Or 13 Years Of Age, As Soon As Nature Prompts Them,
Freely Bestow Their Maidenheads On
Some Youth about the same Age,
continuing her Favours on whom she most affects, changing her Mate very often,
few
Or none of them being constant to one, till a greater Number of Years
has made her capable of managing domestick Affairs, and she hath try'd
the Vigour of most of the Nation she belongs to; Multiplicity of Gallants
never being a Stain to a Female's Reputation, or the least Hindrance
of her Advancement, but the more Whorish, the more Honourable,
and they of all most coveted, by those of the first Rank, to make a Wife of.
The `Flos Virginis', so much coveted by the Europeans, is never valued
by these Savages. When a Man and Woman have gone through their Degrees,
(there being a certain Graduation amongst them) and are allow'd
to be House-Keepers, which is not till they arrive at such an Age,
and have past the Ceremonies practis'd by their Nation, almost all Kingdoms
differing in the Progress thereof, then it is that the Man makes his Addresses
to some one of these thorough-paced Girls, or other, whom he likes best.
When she is won, the Parents of both Parties, (with Advice of the King)
agree about the Matter, making a Promise of their Daughter, to the Man,
that requires her, it often happening that they converse and travel together,
for several Moons before the Marriage is publish'd openly; After this,
at the least Dislike the Man may turn her away, and take another;
or if she disapproves of his Company, a Price is set upon her,
and if the Man that seeks to get her, will pay the Fine to her Husband,
she becomes free from Him:
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