The Cloathing of the _Indians_ is only a pair of _Indian_ Breeches to cover their secret Parts, which is but a piece of Cloth a yard and a half long, but between their Groins, ty’d with a Snakes Skin about their middles, one end hanging down with a flap before, the other like a tail behind. In the Winter time, the more Aged of them wear Leather Drawers, in form like _Irish_ Trouses, fasten’d under their Girdle with Buttons: They wear Shooes likewise of their own making, cut out of a _Mooses_ Hide; many of them wear Skins about them, in form of an _Irish_ Mantle, and of these some are Bears Skins, _Mooses_ Skins, and Beaver Skins sew’d together, others Otter Skins, and _Rackoon_ Skins; most of them in the Winter having his deep Furr’d Cat Skin, like a large Muff, which he shifts to that Arm which lieth most expos’d to the Wind. Although they are poor, yet is there in them the sparks of natural Pride, which appears in their longing desire after many kind of Ornaments, wearing Pendants in their Ears, in form of Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, Carv’d out of Bone, Shells, and Stone, with long Bracelets of their curious wrought _Wampompeage_ and _Mowhackees_, which they put about their Necks and Loins; these they count a rare kind of Decking; many of the better sort bearing upon their Cheeks certain Pourtraitures of Beasts, as Bears, Deers, _Mooses_, Wolves, _&c._ some of Fowls, as of Eagles, Hawks, _&c._ which is not a superficial Painting, but a certain Incision, or else a raising of their Skin by a small sharp Instrument, under which they convey a certain kind of black unchangeable Ink, which makes the desir’d form apparent and permanent. Others have certain round Impressions down the outside of their Arms and Breasts, in form of Mullets or Spur-rowels, which they imprint by searing Irons: Whether these be Foils to illustrate their unparallel’d Beauty (as they deem it) or Arms to blazon their antique Gentility, cannot easily be determin’d: But a _Segamore_ with a _Humbird_ in his Ear for a Pendant, a black Hawk on his Head for his Plume, _Mowhackees_ for his Gold Chain, good store of _Wampompeage_ begirting his Loins, his Bowe in his Hand, his Quiver at his Back, with six naked _Indian_ Lacquies at his Heels for his Guard, thinks himself little Inferior to the great _Cham_. [Sidenote: Their Diet, Cookery, Meal-times, and Hospitality at their Kettles.]