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those two persons were designed for each other; and whether, if married, they would live long and happily together. If the persons were not for each other, and would not, if married, live well together, the roots would not move. If in case of marriage, they would live well together a short time & then one die, the roots would move together, but one would quietly wilt away. In either case the priest forbid the marriage, & nothing more was said about it. But if the roots moved quickly together, & continued so till put down, the marriage was to be consummated. All parties then assembled, and the priest commended the couple to god (the sun) praying that they might be enabled to live long and happily together. He then told them that if either should prove unfaithful to the other, that one especially must go to the bad place. They supposed that nothing would break the marriage covenant but adultery. Nothing else could justify a separation.

Among the creeks, a young woman in the first change of her circumstances, immediately separates from the rest of the family, and retires to a hut, at some distance, where she continues seven days; during which time no person may touch her, & she is particular not to touch even her own food. At the end of seven days she washes herself, and her clothes, & whatever she may have touched, (or lay it aside) and returns to the house,