they are hungry, they forthwith make a fire and cook;
they can get fire by rubbing pieces of wood against one another, and
that very quickly.

They generally live without marriage; and if any of them have wives,
the marriage continues no longer than seems good to one of the parties,
and then they separate, and each takes another partner. I have seen
those who had parted, and afterwards lived a long time with others,
leave these again, seek their former partners, and again be one pair.
And, though they have wives, yet they will not leave off whoring; and
if they can sleep with another man's wife, they think it is a brave
thing. The women are exceedingly addicted to whoring; they will lie
with a man for the value of one, two, or three schillings, and our
Dutchmen run after them very much.

The women, when they have been delivered, go about immediately
afterwards, and be it ever so cold, they wash themselves and the young
child in the river or the snow. They will not lie down (for they say
that if they did they would soon die), but keep going about. They are
obliged to cut wood, to travel three or four leagues with the child; in
short, they walk, they stand, they work, as if they had not lain in,
and we cannot see that they suffer any injury by it; and we sometimes
try to persuade our wives to lie-in so, and that the way of lying-in in
Holland is a mere fiddle-faddle. The men have great authority over
their concubines, so that if they do anything which does not please and
raises their passion, they take an axe and knock them in the head, and
there is an end of it. The women are obliged to prepare the land, to
mow, to plant, and do everything; the men do nothing, but hunt, fish,
and make war upon their enemies. They are very cruel towards their
enemies in time of war; for they first bite off the nails of the
fingers of their captives, and cut off some joints, and sometimes even
whole fingers; after that, the captives are forced to sing and dance
before them stark naked; and finally, they roast their prisoners dead
before a slow fire for some days, and then eat them up. The common
people eat the arms, buttocks and trunk, but the chiefs eat the head
and the heart.

Our Mahakas carry on great wars against the Indians of Canada, on the
River Saint Lawrence, and take many captives, and sometimes there are
French Christians among them. Last year, our Indians got a great booty
from the French on the River Saint Lawrence