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Sketches Of The Manners And Customs Of The North-American Indians.

SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS .

[ From " A Journey to the Northern Ocean from Prince of Wales ' s Fort , in Hudson ' s Bay , in the Years 1769 , 1770 , 1771 , and 1772 . " ] ( CONTINUED PROM P . 236 . )

TREATMENT OF WOMEN . IN our last number , we gave a sketch of the respect in which females x are held , among the American Indians . The following instances will prove , that there is no part of the world in which they are treated with so much cruelty . " Having finished suchwood-work as the Indians thought would be

necessary , and having , augmented our stock of dried meat and fat , the ' twenty-first was appointed for moving ; but one of the women having been taken in labour , and it being rather an extraordinaiy case , we were detained more than two days . The instant , however , the poor woman was delivered , which , was not until she had suffered all the pains usually felt on those occasions , for near fiftv-two hours , , the signal made for when the

was moving , poor creature took lier . infant on her back , and set out with the rest of the company ; and though another person had the humanity to haul her sledge for her , ( for one ' day only , ) she was obliged to carry a considerable load beside her little charge , and was frequently obliged to wade knee-deep in water and wet snow . Her very looksexclusive of her moans suf _ j 3 fc

, , were a - - , ^ „ "u « >» umw , VVLIt a OLUiicient proor of the great pain she endured , insomuch that although , she was a person I greatly disliked , her distress at this time so overcame my prejudice , that I never felt more for any of her sex in my life : indeed her si ghs pierced me to' the soul , and rendered me very miserable , as it was not in my power to relieve , her . " One of the Indian ' s wiveswho for some time had been in

, a consumption , had for a few days past become so weak as to be incapable of travelling , which , among those people , is the most deplorable state to which a human being can possibly be brought . Whether she had been given over by the doctors , or that it was for want of friends among them , I cannot tell ; but certain it is , that no expedients were taken for her recovery : so that , without much ceremony , she leftunassisted

was , , to perish above-ground . " Though this was the first instance of the kind I had seen , it is the common , and indeed the constant practice of those Indians : for when a grown person is so ill , especially in the Summer , as not to be able to walk , and too heavy to be carried , they sav , it is better to leave one who is past recovery , than for the whole famil y to sit down by them

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LONDON: Article 3
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 4
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. FOR MAY 1796. PRESENT STATE OF FREEMASONRY IN SCOTLAND. Article 5
Untitled Article 10
COPY OF A LETTER. FROM THE REV. DR. STURGES, Article 13
THE FOLLY OF NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN PAYING THEIR DEBTS, Article 16
SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS. Article 19
DISCIPLINE. Article 24
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. Article 25
ON THE MASONIC JEWELS. Article 31
ON PRESENCE OF MIND. Article 33
THE DOG-TAX; A FRAGMENT. Article 35
CIVIC ANECDOTE. Article 36
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. Article 37
CLOWNISH SIMPLICITY. Article 38
BON MOT OF THE DEVIL. Article 38
ORIGINALITY IN DR. ROBERTSON AND MR. GIBBON. Article 39
SOME ANECDOTES OF HENRY PRINCE OF WALES, Article 40
SOME PARTICULARS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN RESPECTING MONSIEUR BAILLY. Article 41
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 43
LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 48
BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 49
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 50
THE FINE ARTS. Article 57
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 59
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 61
ANNIVERSARY OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. Article 63
POETRY. Article 66
ELEGY, TO THE MEMORY OF STEPHEN STORACE , THE COMPOSER. Article 67
A NEW OCCASIONAL LYRIC, MASONIC EULOGIVM, Article 68
LINES TO DAPHNE, Article 68
Untitled Article 69
TO DELIA. Article 70
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 71
HOME NEWS. Article 73
PROMOTIONS. Article 77
Untitled Article 77
OBITUARY. Article 78
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 80
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Sketches Of The Manners And Customs Of The North-American Indians.

SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS .

[ From " A Journey to the Northern Ocean from Prince of Wales ' s Fort , in Hudson ' s Bay , in the Years 1769 , 1770 , 1771 , and 1772 . " ] ( CONTINUED PROM P . 236 . )

TREATMENT OF WOMEN . IN our last number , we gave a sketch of the respect in which females x are held , among the American Indians . The following instances will prove , that there is no part of the world in which they are treated with so much cruelty . " Having finished suchwood-work as the Indians thought would be

necessary , and having , augmented our stock of dried meat and fat , the ' twenty-first was appointed for moving ; but one of the women having been taken in labour , and it being rather an extraordinaiy case , we were detained more than two days . The instant , however , the poor woman was delivered , which , was not until she had suffered all the pains usually felt on those occasions , for near fiftv-two hours , , the signal made for when the

was moving , poor creature took lier . infant on her back , and set out with the rest of the company ; and though another person had the humanity to haul her sledge for her , ( for one ' day only , ) she was obliged to carry a considerable load beside her little charge , and was frequently obliged to wade knee-deep in water and wet snow . Her very looksexclusive of her moans suf _ j 3 fc

, , were a - - , ^ „ "u « >» umw , VVLIt a OLUiicient proor of the great pain she endured , insomuch that although , she was a person I greatly disliked , her distress at this time so overcame my prejudice , that I never felt more for any of her sex in my life : indeed her si ghs pierced me to' the soul , and rendered me very miserable , as it was not in my power to relieve , her . " One of the Indian ' s wiveswho for some time had been in

, a consumption , had for a few days past become so weak as to be incapable of travelling , which , among those people , is the most deplorable state to which a human being can possibly be brought . Whether she had been given over by the doctors , or that it was for want of friends among them , I cannot tell ; but certain it is , that no expedients were taken for her recovery : so that , without much ceremony , she leftunassisted

was , , to perish above-ground . " Though this was the first instance of the kind I had seen , it is the common , and indeed the constant practice of those Indians : for when a grown person is so ill , especially in the Summer , as not to be able to walk , and too heavy to be carried , they sav , it is better to leave one who is past recovery , than for the whole famil y to sit down by them

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