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A25198	A character of the province of Mary-land ... also a small treatise on the wilde and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-land, their customs, manners, absurdities, & religion : together with a collection of historical letters / by George Alsop.	Alsop, George, b. 1638.	1666 (1666)	Wing A2901; ESTC R6606	39,098	148

America but if they can by any means come at him without any scruple of Conscience they 'le fall too without saying Grace with a devouring greediness As for their Religion together with their Rites and Ceremonies they are so absurd and ridiculous that it s almost a sin to name them They own no other Deity then the Devil solid or profound but with a kind of a wilde imaginary conjecture they suppose from their groundless conceits that the World had a Maker but where he is that made it or whether he be living to this day they know not The Devil as I said before is all the God they own or worship and that more out of a slavish fear then any real Reverence to his Infernal or Diabolical greatness he forcing them to their Obedience by his rough and rigid dealing with them often appearing visibly among them to their terrour bastinadoing them with cruel menaces even unto death and burning their Fields of Corn and houses that the relation thereof makes them tremble themselves when they tell it Once in four years they Sacrifice a Childe to him in an acknowledgement of their firm obedience to all his Devillish powers and Hellish commands The Priests to whom they apply themselves in matters of importance and greatest distress are like those that attended upon the Oracle at Delphos who by their Magick-spells could command a pro or con from the Devil when they pleas'd These Indians oft-times raise great Tempests when they have any weighty matter or design in hand and by blustering stormes inquire of their Infernal God the Devil How matters shall go with them either in publick or private When any among them depart this life they give him no other intombment then to set him upright upon his breech in a hole dug in the Earth some five foot long and three foot deep covered over with the Bark of Trees Arch-wise with his face Du-West only leaving a hole half a foot square open They dress him in the same Equipage and Gallantry that he used to be trim'd in when he was alive and so bury him if a Soldier with his Bows Arrows and Target together with all the rest of his implements and weapons of War with a Kettle of Broth and Corn standing before him lest he should meet with bad quarters in his way His Kinred and Relations follow him to the Grave sheath'd in Bears skins for close mourning with the tayl droyling on the ground in imitation of our English Solemners that think there 's nothing like a tayl a Degree in length to follow the dead Corpse to the Grave with Here if that snuffling Prolocutor that waits upon the dead Monuments of the Tombs at Westminster with his white Rod were there he might walk from Tomb to Tomb with his Here lies the Duke of Ferrara and his Dutchess and never find any decaying vacation unless it were in the moldering Consumption of his own Lungs They bury all within the wall or Pallisado'd impalement of their City or Connadago as they call it Their houses are low and long built with the Bark of Trees Arch-wise standing thick and confusedly together They are situated a hundred and odd miles distant from the Christian Plantations of Mary-Land at the head of a River that runs into the Bay of Chaesapike called by their own name The Susquehanock River where they remain and inhabit most part of the Summer time and seldom remove far from it unless it be to subdue any Forreign Rebellion About November the best Hunters draw off to several remote places of the Woods where they know the Deer Bear and Elke useth there they build them several Cottages which they call their Winter-quarter where they remain for the space of three months untill they have killed up a sufficiency of Provisions to supply their Families with in the Summer The Women are the Butchers Cooks and Tillers of the ground the Men think it below the honour of a Masculine to stoop to any thing but that which their Gun or Bow and Arrows can command The Men kill the several Beasts which they meet withall in the Woods and the Women are the Pack horses to fetch it in upon their backs fleying and dressing the hydes as well as the flesh for provision to make them fit for Trading and which are brought down to the English at several seasons in the year to truck and dispose of them for course Blankets Guns Powder and Lead Beads small Looking-glasses Knives and Razors I never observed all the while I was amongst these naked Indians that ever the Women wore the Breeches or dared either in look or action predominate over the Men. They are very constant to their Wives and let this be spoken to their Heathenish praise that did they not alter their bodies by their dyings paintings and cutting themselves marring those Excellencies that Nature bestowed upon them in their original conceptions and birth there would be as amiable beauties amongst them as any Alexandria could afford when Mark Anthony and Cleopatra dwelt there together Their Marriages are short and authentique for after 't is resolv'd upon by both parties the Woman sends her intended Husband a Kettle of boyl'd Venison or Bear and he returns in lieu thereof Beaver or Otters Skins and so their Nuptial Rites are concluded without other Ceremony Before I bring my Heathenish Story to a period I have one thing worthy your observation For as our Grammer Rules have it Non decet quenquam me ire currentem aut mandantem It doth not become any man to piss running or eating These Pagan men naturally observe the same Rule for they are so far from running that like a Hare they squat to the ground as low as they can while the Women stand bolt upright with their armes a Kimbo performing the same action in so confident and obscene a posture as if they had taken their Degrees of Entrance at Venice and commenced Bawds of Art at Legorne A Collection of some Letters that were written by the same Author most of them in the time of his Servitude To my much Honored Friend Mr. T.B. SIR I Have lived with sorrow to see the Anointed of the Lord tore from his Throne by the hands of Paricides and in contempt haled in the view of God Angels and Men upon a publick Theatre and there murthered I have seen the sacred Temple of the Almighty in scorn by Schismaticks made the Receptacle of Theeves and Robbers and those Religious Prayers that in devotion Evening and Morning were offered up as a Sacrifice to our God rent by Sacrilegious hands and made no other use of then sold to Brothel-houses to light Tobacco with Who then can stay or will to see things of so great weight steer'd by such barbarous Hounds as these First were there an Egypt to go down to I would involve my Liberty to them upon condition ne're more to see my Country What live in silence under the sway of such base