The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-19
.gs VOLUME xIL-NUMBER SIG, yaig,l5
TERMS-<SS FER ANN URf 81
PAYaBL 3. IN ADYaNcE. 'o'
; a ereat chance & nlIeFd.

r. When any person is sick, afcr the means used
by his friends, every pretending skill in Phys
lick, that proving Intellectual they send for Pa
waw or Priest who sitting down by the sick per
son without the least enquiry after the distempeF,
waits for gift which he proportions his work
laccordingiy to: that being received, he first be-
gins with low voice to call upon his God, ,scaEt-
ing sometimes upon ono sometimes on another
raising his voice higher s. higher, beating his
naked breasts g. Sides tllthe sweat runnelh down;
& his breath is almost gone then that little which
is remaining, he evapormtes upon the face Of the
sick person three four times together & 50
takes his leave. r5 4. !. st laG8a.
Their marriages are performed without any
Eceremony, the match being first made by money.
he sum being agreed upon & given to the swo-
man j: makes consummation of their marriage,
If may so call it: After that he keeps her dur.
ling bis pleasure & upon the least DISLIKE turns
her away & takes another. II is no offence for
their married women to lie with another man pro-
vided she acquaint her husband or some Of her
nearest Relations with it, but If not it is accounted
such fault that they sometimes punish it with
death An Indian may have two wives or more
IT he please, but It is not much in il was
since tho English came amongstthem they being
ready in some measure 10 initiate the EhgliStih in
things both good & bad: Any maid before she Is
married doth lie with whom she please for money
without any scandal, or the least aspersion to be
cast upon her it being so customary &5their laws
toerating Of it, They are extraordinary chart
able one to another, one having nothing TO spare
but he freely mpars it to his friends & whatsO
ever they get by gaming or any other way, they
share one to another leaving themselves common
ly the least share. y-7 ir,ll .frla uc Fa.s 4aia2
AT their CGnticas or dancing matches where
all persons that come freely entertained it be-
ing Festival time Tbcir rusem is when they
dance, every one but the Dancers to have short
stick in their hands & TO knock the ground d
sing altogether, whilst they that dance sometimes
act war.ike postures, & then they come in paint
ed for War with their faces black & rcd, or some
all black all red, with some strcaks Of white
under their eyes, & so jump & leap up & down
without any order,- uttcring many expressions of
their intended valour For other dances they on
ly shew what Antick tricks their ignorance will
lead them 10, swinging of their bodies 81 faces a(
ter strange. manner, sometimes jumping iniO the
fire, sometimes catching upa FiTebrand, s. biting
off live coal with many such tricks, that will
alright If not please an English man 10 loolcup-
on them, resembling rather a company Of internal
furies than men,. When their King or SGckem
sits in Council he hath accompany ofarmed men
to guard his person, great respect being shewn
him by the People, which is principally mnni-
tested by their silence After he hath declared the
cause of their convention he demands their opin-
ion, ordering who shall begin The person ordef
ed to speak, ater he hath declared his Dnde tells
them he bath done: no man ever interruptlng any
person IN his speech, nor offering to speak though
he make never so many or long Stops, The says
he hath no more 10 say: the Council having ail
declared their opinions, the King after some pause
gives the defnilive sentence, which is commonly
seconded with shout from The people, eveFy1On
seeming to applaud & manifest their assent IN
what is determined : 1t any person iscondemncd
| to die, which is seldom, unless for Murder or In
ces, the King himself goes e insperson ftfar
you must understand they have no prisons; tSahs
Il.
in quest of him, s. having found him, the King
shoots first, though at never such distance &
then happy is the man can shoot him down, &
| cut off his -a which they, commonly Weaf,
who for his pains is made some Captain or other
lmilitary officer. oil + , fs ~ 5ni ri 80 sco
| Their CIoalhihg, is yard and half of broad
Cloth, which is made for the Indian Trade, which
they hang upon their shoulders & half yard Of
the same cloth, which being put betwixt their
! legs, & brought up before & behind & iied1wilh
a Girdle about their middle, hangs with afupon
each side: They wear no Hats, but COMMONLY
wear about their Heads a!Snakeis skiH, or a bek
of their money, or a kind of Ruff made with
Deers hair & &dicd of scarlet colour, which they
esteem very rich. st .ftal III ~ ts-e .,sfTSsJ
| They grease their bodies s. hair very ofcn,& &
paint their faces with several colours as black,
white, red yellow, blew, &C., which they take
great pride in, every one being painted in aseves
raj manner = Thus much. for the Customs Ofathc
Indians "a easas44.1 vief- Elea ss7ssas.5 $500
Within two leagues Of New York helh Staten
Island, il bears from Nelo York West something
lsoutherly. It is about twenty miles long, e. four
or five broad, is most Of it very good land, full
of Timber and produceth all such commodities.as
Long Island doth, besides Tin & store OF Iron oar,
& the Caamine stone is said like wise to be fand
there There is but one Town upon it coneisting
Of Eng lish 6 French, but it is capable Of tnto4
tanning more inhabitants: betwixtsthis' & Long
Island is large Bay, & is the coming ia for uit
ships and vessels out Of the Sea;nOn the North
side of this Island Afler-Skult River puts into the
Main Land on the West side, whereof is two or
three Towns, but on the EastSide but ono. There
is very great ,Matshes or Meadows on both sides
of it, excellent good land, & good conScnieneefoF
the setting of several towns there grows black
Walnut 6 Locust as there doth in V1TgtntG svilh
mighty tall streight Timber, as good asIanyain
the North OF America: 1t produceth any Coms3
modte that Long Island doth. ss ID . IA u tssi
Hadsons River runs by Neuc- Y0r1i inofthwnHli
into the Countrey, towards the Head of which is
seated Netc-AlbGnyS place of great Tradsavith'
the Indians. betwixt which s. Mem York. being
above one hundred miles, is as good Corn ldndas
the world affords, enoug h 10 entertain hundreds
| of Families which in the time of the Dutch tGoE-s
ernment of those parts could not be settled EOB5
the Indians, excepting one place called the S0peTE
which was keptby Carr isony sbMt.sinee the rel
ducemPnt oEthnse paris under his Maieslies Obedi-,
ence, & patent granted lo,rhis Royal, ,Highheasi
tho na Of York which is 0hont sig st,sa r.