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14 Their Mariages & Divorces They have in some nations as many Wives as they can maintain, but common sort being poor have generally but one. Some two.? They use to lye with them before mariage, to see if they can like them. They have no ceremonies in mariage that I can learn; All that is required is the mutual con= sent of the parties. The Bridegroom makes a present of their money to the Brides father, who bestowes ye present on his daughter. Then they feast & dance & make merry.

They put away their wives at their pleasure, and take others. The women keep all their money, & it is theirs as? their husband put them away, but then they must main= tain all the children: And if they marry again the? money belongs to the children; and, if there be no children, it is to be restored to their former husband. The men marry comonly at 16 or 18, and the women about 14 or 16. marginal note: Sometimes ye man keeps ye Boys & ye woman ye Girls

Their way of educating their children. They bring up their children to nothing but to use a Bow & a Gun. They put them into cold water as soon as they are born, & often afterwards in the cold of winter they make a hole in ye ice & put them in, thereby to harden them. The Young people during most part of winter goe into ye River if they be near one, every morning, & wash themselves for a considerable time