's hair which is
dyed red, and of which they make rings for the head, and other fine hair
of the same color, to hang from the neck like tresses, of which they are
very proud. They frequently smear their skin and hair with difference
kinds of grease. They can almost all swim. They themselves make the
boats they use, which are of two kinds, some of entire trees, which they
hollow out with fire, hatchets and adzes, and which the Christians call
canoes; others are made of bark, which they manage very skilfully, and
which are also called canoes.

Traces of the institution of marriage can just be perceived among them,
and nothing more. A man and woman join themselves together without any
particular ceremony other than that the man by previous agreement with
the woman gives her some zeewant or cloth, which on their separation,
if it happens soon, he often takes again. Both men and women are utterly
unchaste and shamelessly promiscuous in their intercourse, which is
the cause of the men so often changing their wives and the women their
husbands. Ordinarily they have but one wife, sometimes two or three, but
this is generally among the chiefs. They have also among them different
conditions of persons, such as noble and ignoble. The men are generally
lazy, and do nothing until they become old and unesteemed, when they
make spoons, wooden bowls, bags, nets and other similar articles; beyond
this the men do nothing except fish, hunt and go to war. The women are
compelled to do the rest of the work, such as planting corn, cutting
and drawing fire-wood, cooking, taking care of the children and whatever
else there is to be done. Their dwellings consist of hickory saplings,
placed upright in the ground and bent arch-wise; the tops are
covered with barks of trees, which they cut for this purpose in great
quantities. Some even have within them rough carvings of faces and
images, but these are generally in the houses of the chiefs. In the
fishing and hunting seasons, they lie under the open sky or little
better. They do not live long in one place, but move about several
times in a year, at such times and to such places as it appears best and
easiest for them to obtain subsistence.

They are divided into different tribes and languages, each tribe living
generally by itself and having one of its number as a chief, though he
has not much power or distinction except in their dances or in time
of war. Among some there is not the least knowled