'Tis then that the Young
Savage comes well wrapt up to his Mistress's Hut, and lights a sort of a
Match at the Fire; after which he opens the Door of his Mistress's
Apartment and makes up to her bed: If she blows out the light, he lies
down by her; but if she pulls her Covering over her Face, he retires;
that being a Sign that she will not receive him."
[20] Verily, Peters's sarcasm savors as much of truth as humor when,
speaking of bundling, he says: "The Indians who had this method of
courtship among them in 1634, are the most chaste set of people in the
world. Concubinage and fornication are vices none of them are addicted
to, except such as forsake the laws of Hobbamockon and turn Christians.
The savages have taken many female prisoners, carried them back three
hundred miles into their country, and kept them several years, and yet
not a single instance of their violating the laws of chastity has ever
been known. This cannot be said of the French, or of the English,
whenever Indian or other women have fallen into their hands."
[21] "Great jealousy did they likewise stir up by their intermeddling
and successes among the divine sex; for being a race of brisk, likely,
pleasant tongued varlets, they soon seduced the light affections of the
simple lasses from their ponderous Dutch gallants.
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