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Rh Maidens on the contrary, and unmarried Women oberve much better the Rules of Modety and Continency; for I never aw any of them entertain any looe or lippery Converation with young Men; or hew the leat Inclination to it either in Words or Deeds. During fifteen full Years that I lived in Greenland, I did not hear of more than two or three young Women, who were gotten with Child unmarried; becaue it is reckoned the greatet of Infamies. 'Tis remarkable, that natural Decency is oberved by them; for they refrain from marrying their next Relations, even in the third Degree, taking uch Matches to be unwarrantable and quite unnatural. It is likewie reckoned uncouth an blameable, if a Lad and a Girl, that have erved and been educated in one Family, hould deire to be married together; for they look upon them as Brother and Siter.

The Ceremonies they ue in their Marriages and Weddings are as follow: When a young Man likes a Maiden, he commonly 2