ond a wreath of furs on her head,
and her hair is bound with a fillet of peak and beads. Between the two
is a woman under a tree making a basket of silk grass after their own
manner.

[Illustration: _Lith. of Ritchies & Dunnavant Richmond, Va._
Pipe of peace v. ch. I have seen. Lahontans Calumet of peace.
a Birchen Canoe or Canoe of Bark
Tab. 6 Book 3 Pag. 132]

TAB. VI. Is a woman and a boy running after her. One of her hands rests
in her necklace of peak, and the other holds a gourd, in which they put
water or other liquid.

The boy wears a necklace of runtees, in his right hand is an Indian
rattle, and in his left a roasting ear of corn. Round his waist is a
small string, and another brought cross through his crotch, and for
decency a soft skin is fastened before.

Runtees are made of the conch shell as the peak is, only the shape is
flat and round like a cheese, and drilled edge ways.

CHAPTER II.

OF THE MARRIAGES AMONGST THE INDIANS, AND MANAGEMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN.

Sec. 6. The Indians have their solemnities of marriage, and esteem the vows
made at that time as most sacred and inviolable. Notwithstanding they
allow both the man and the wife to part upon disagreement, yet so great
is the disreputation of a divorce, that married people, to avoid the
character of inconstant and ungenerous, very rarely let their quarrels
proceed to a separation. However, when it does so happen, they reckon
all the ties of matrimony dissolved, and each hath the liberty of
marrying another. But infidelity is accounted the most unpardonable of
all crimes in either of the parties as long as the contract continues.

In these separations, the children go, according to the affection of the
parent, with the one or the other; for children are not reckoned a
charge among them, but rather riches, according to the blessing of the
Old Testament; and if they happen to differ about dividing their
children, their method is then to part them equally, allowing the man
the first choice.

Sec. 7. Though the young Indian women are said to prostitute their bodies
for wampom peak, runtees, beads, and other such like fineries; yet I
never could find any ground for the accusation, and believe it only to
be an unjust scandal upon them. This I know, that if ever they have a
child while they are single, it is such a disgrace to them that they
never after get husbands. Besides, I must do them the justice to say, I
never he