They always wash themselves before, and after they eat, and should a Dead lizard, Mouse or rat toutch them they would wash before they handled any Food and should they happen to find one in or near their oven or toutch any of their Culinary Utensils they would use them No More. Notwitshtanding which the[y] will eat a Hog which has died if they know of No disorder which might be the Occasion of his Death.

If any person toutches a dead body except of those killd by War, or for Sacrafice, is rendered unclean and can toutch no provisions with their hands for one Month, during which time they must be fed by another. If the Man killd in War be toutched by a relation they must undergo the like but otherwise Washing is sufficient. If any person have a running sore or large Ulcers they are toutchd by no person else and if they die the House wherein they lived is burnt with evry thing belonging to it. When Mourning for the Death of any relation they Shave the Fore part of their heads and sometimes the hind part together with their Eye brows & beards and Cut their heads with Sharks teeth in excess of Grief or Joy. See the Mourning Ceremony. They always Venerate the Grey heads, and are kind to Strangers, and protect the Fatherless & the Widow. A Child may Curse its Father, Mother, Uncle or Aunt but it would be Blasphemy for them to Curse it. The Child may not Curse its Grand Father, Grandmother, Brothers or Sisters but the Grand Father or Grandmother may Curse their Grand Children with Impunity, but it is Death For any Man to Blaspheme or revile the Gods or the King.

When they Marry they Never Join with their Blood relations but a Man May take two Sisters, and a Woman two Brothers at the same time if they are all agreeable, and it is lookd upon [as] a piece of Great friendship for a Man to Cohabit with the Wife of His adopted freind if She is agreeable: the Adopted friend being always accounted as a brother.

If a woman has [a] husband and he dies without Issue the Husbands

Indigenous Histories