As for the Manners and Customs of the _Islinois_, in many Particulars they are the same as those of the other Nations we have seen. They are naturally fierce and revengeful, and among them the Toil of Sowing, Planting, carrying of Burdens, and doing all other Things that belong to the Support of Life, appertains peculiarly to the Women. The Men have no other Business but going to the War and hunting, and the women must fetch the Game when they have kill’d it, which sometimes they are to carry very far to their Dwellings, and there to parch, or dress it any other Way. When the Corn or other Grain is sow’d, the Women secure it from the Birds till it comes up. Those Birds are a sort of Starlings, like ours in _France_, but larger and fly in great Swarms. [Sidenote: _Children._] The _Islinois_ have but few Children, and are extremely fond of them; it is the Custom among them, as well as others I have mentioned, never to chide, or beat them, but only to throw Water at them, by Way of Chastisement. [Sidenote: _Thieving._] [Sidenote: _Boasting._] The Nations we have spoken of before, are not at all, or very little, addicted to Thieving; but it is not so with the _Islinois_, and it behoves every Man to watch their Feet as well as their Hands, for they know how to turn any Thing out of the Way most dexterously. They are subject to the general Vice of all the other _Indians_, which is to boast very much of their Warlike Exploits, and that is the main Subject of their Discourse, and they are very great Lyars. [Sidenote: _Care of the Dead._] They pay a Respect to their Dead, as appears by their special Care of burying them, and even of putting into Coffins placed high above the ground, the Bodies of such as are considerable among them, as their Chiefs and others, which is also practiced among the _Accancea’s_, but they differ in this Particular, that the _Accancea’s_ weep and make their Complaints for some Days, whereas the _Chahouanous_ and other People of the _Islinois_ Nation do just the Contrary; for when any of them die, they wrap them up in Skins, and then put them into Coffins made of the Barks of Trees, then sing and dance about them for twenty four Hours. Those Dancers take Care to tie Calabashes, or Gourds about their Bodies, with some _Indian_ Wheat in them, to rattle and make a Noise, and some of them have a Drum, made of a great Earthen Pot, on which they extend a wild Goat’s Skin, and beat thereon with one Stick, like our Tabors. [Sidenote: _Presents to the Dead._]