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144 again, without bearing any Grudge. For, according to them, it ignifies nothing, that a Man beats his Wife; but they do not like that a Mater hould drub a Servant Maid. Likewie they think it heinous that a Mother chatizes her Children; and if he falls foul of her Maid, it is with them unpardonable; and uch a Woman gets an ill Name.

If one of the Party dies, the Relict, whether Huband or Wife, is at Liberty to marry again.

The Woman are of a very hardy and trong Nature, which they chiefly hew in their for as oon as it is over, they will go to work and do ordinary Buines without any ado. But ometimes they pay very dear for this Bravery, it conting them their Lives. The Day after their Delivery they go abroad to work, being girt with a two or three Inches broad, which they alo wore before their Delivery. As oon as the Child is born, the Mother