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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 165 (part 3)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The man and woman unite together without any special ceremony, except that the former, by agreement previously made with the latter, presents her with some wampum or cloth, which he frequently takes back on separating, chaste"* and^ fr^ ^^ ^his occur any way soon. Both men and women are excessively unchaste and re"i?'wive3. '''""'^' lascivious, without the least particle of shame; and this is the reason that the men so frequently change their wives and the women, their husbands. They have, usually, but one wife; sometimes even two or three, but this mostly obtains among the chiefs. They have also among them different ranks of people, such as noble and ignoble. The men are generally lazy and will not work until they

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