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Their Habit & Ornaments } They goe bare headed both winter & summer. the King and his Nobles wear something like a ring made of feathers or a coronet made of yr money [[unclear]] | Their Habit & Ornaments } They goe bare headed both winter & summer. the King and his Nobles wear something like a ring made of feathers or a coronet made of yr money [[unclear - gih yy caopook]] about their head, the crown of their head being bare. Their cloaths are Deer skins, wrapt about them; or some coarse stuff which they buy from ye Inglish. They goe sometimes all naked, except something to cover their privities. They take no care for ye future; They will not buy any more cloaths than they have present use for, tho they might have them never so cheap: they will not provide new ones, till ye old be worn out. They have holes in their ears where they hang some of their money & beads & such other things, as they esteem precious & beautifull. Ye women have their cloaths laced about with their money. | ||
Their | Their Food } They plant corn for bread. All their drink is [[water?]] They Love Rum mightily, when they can have it, for when they are drunk, they say that they are [[brave?]] men, they have no fear, and can fight any man. They live on Deer, & other wild beasts & fowls. Tho the Inglish have good store of Hogs & Cattle, and good flocks of sheep, yet they eat generally salt meat except in ye beginning if winter, when they kill the Hogs & their beeves: ffor all ye rest of the year, they are so bad Husbands, that they have no [[meadows?]] and so want hay for maintaining their Cattle in the winter; and then, they not only have no benefit by but many of them dye for want of provender. Gentlemen, who are more provident have fresh provisions all ye years; and because they cannot keep beef fresh in the summer, above a few dayes, & cannot dispose of a [[whole?]] beeve themselves, half a dozen or eigth Gentlemen joyn [[in?]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:12, 11 September 2019
Their Habit & Ornaments } They goe bare headed both winter & summer. the King and his Nobles wear something like a ring made of feathers or a coronet made of yr money unclear - gih yy caopook about their head, the crown of their head being bare. Their cloaths are Deer skins, wrapt about them; or some coarse stuff which they buy from ye Inglish. They goe sometimes all naked, except something to cover their privities. They take no care for ye future; They will not buy any more cloaths than they have present use for, tho they might have them never so cheap: they will not provide new ones, till ye old be worn out. They have holes in their ears where they hang some of their money & beads & such other things, as they esteem precious & beautifull. Ye women have their cloaths laced about with their money.
Their Food } They plant corn for bread. All their drink is water? They Love Rum mightily, when they can have it, for when they are drunk, they say that they are brave? men, they have no fear, and can fight any man. They live on Deer, & other wild beasts & fowls. Tho the Inglish have good store of Hogs & Cattle, and good flocks of sheep, yet they eat generally salt meat except in ye beginning if winter, when they kill the Hogs & their beeves: ffor all ye rest of the year, they are so bad Husbands, that they have no meadows? and so want hay for maintaining their Cattle in the winter; and then, they not only have no benefit by but many of them dye for want of provender. Gentlemen, who are more provident have fresh provisions all ye years; and because they cannot keep beef fresh in the summer, above a few dayes, & cannot dispose of a whole? beeve themselves, half a dozen or eigth Gentlemen joyn in?