"You must know further, that Two Hours after Sunset the Old Supperannuated Persons, or Slaves (who never lie in their Masters' Huts) take care to cover up the Fire before they go. '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. Among other hideous customs, they attempted to introduce among them that of _bundling_, which the Dutch lasses of the Nederlandts, with that eager passion for novelty and foreign fashions natural to their sex, seemed very well inclined to follow, but that their mothers, being more experienced in the world, and better acquainted with men and things, strenuously discountenanced all such outlandish innovations." [22] By Washington Irving, p. 211. 4th Am. edition. [23] Dr. Andrew Burnaby. _Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America, in the years 1759 and '60_. London, 1775. [24] _The Portfolio_ (Philadelphia, May 1816), p. 397. [25] _Terences Plays_ were preferred to those of Plautus, for this purpose, inasmuch as the latter were more obscure, and abounded in obsoletisms, and therefore Terence was preferred in England as the text-book for schools. [26] Ireland. [27] _The Reviewers Reviewed, or British Falsehoods detected by American Truths_ (New York, published by R. McDermot and D. D. Arden, No. 1, City Hotel, Broadway, 1815, 12mo, 72), pp. 34, 35. [28] The Right Honorable Sir George Canning, the editor of the _London Quarterly Review_. [29] _Travels through the Interior Parts of America; in a Series of Letters_ (by an officer; a new edition, London, 1781, 8vo), vol. II, pp. 37-40. [30] _Anbury's Travels_, pp. 87, 88. [31] _History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn.,_ p. 495.