The drudgery of all laborious sorts of Work, and the management of all domestick Affairs, lies wholly upon the _Indian_ Women, who are made meer Slaves by their Husbands; they build the Houses, sowe and reap the Corn, provide Lobsters for their Husbands to bait their Hooks when they go a Fishing for _Basse_ or Cod; and for these Lobsters they are many times forc’d to dive in the extreamest Weather, then lug home a great weight of them upon their Backs, as also all the Fish which their Husbands catch for pleasure, from the places where they were caught: They dress all the Meat, serve it up to their Husbands, and waiting till they have fill’d their Bellies, are glad of their leavings. In Summer they gather Flags, of which they make Mats for Houses, and Hemp and Rushes, with Dying Stuff, of which they make curious Baskets, with intermixed Colours and Pourtraictures of antique Imagery. These Baskets are of all sizes from a Quart to a Quarter, in which they carry their Luggage. In Winter they are their Husbands Caterers, trudging to the Clam-banks for their Belly-timber, and their Porters to lug it home. They likewise sew their Husbands Shoes, and weave Coats of _Turky_ Feathers, besides all their ordinary Houshold drudgery which daily lies upon them, insomuch that a great Belly hinders no business, nor doth a Child-birth take much time, but the young Infant being greas’d and footed, wrapp’d in a Beavers Skin, bound with his Feet up to his Bum, upon a Board two Foot long and one Foot broad, and his Face expos’d to all nipping Weather, this little _Pappouse_ travels about with his bare-footed Mother to paddle in the Icy Clam-banks, after three or four days of Age have confirm’d her recovery. For their Carriage, it is very civil, Smiles being the greatest grace of their Mirth. Their Musick is Lullabies in Rocking their Children, who generally are as quiet as if they had neither Spleen or Lungs. Their Voices are generally both sweet and well order’d, so far as pure Nature teacheth them. Their Modesty drives them to wear more Clothes than the Men, having always a Coat of Cloth or Skins, wrapp’d like a Blanket about their Loyns, reaching down to their Hams, which they never put off in Company. [Sidenote: Towns built by the _English_ in _New England_.] There are to be reckon’d up forty five chief Towns, besides what others there may be of less note, built or made habitable by the _English_ since their first arrival in _New England_, till about the Year 1650. [Sidenote: _St. Georges Fort._] First, _St. Georges Fort_, where the first Plantation was setled, at the Mouth of the River _Sagadebock_, in a kind of _Peninsula_, or half Island. [Sidenote: _New Plymouth._] The second, _New Plymouth_, seated no less commodiously upon a large Bay, call’d by the Natives _Pautuxed_; where they first setled that went over out of dissatisfaction to the Church-Government of _England_. [Sidenote: _Salem._]