him and afterwards if he takes an other wife without repudiateing the first if she has his father or mother alive, he only gives them a present of Goods or furs and this they call paying for her body – but the first especially if she has children is always look[']d upon as the mistress often too they promise to marry their Children together which in their lnfanyfancy – but these are only promises and seldom fullfill[']d when they grow Up[.] The Provence of the women is dressing the furs, draging her family furniture in the Campments, and in short all that is to be done about the lodge, but it must be allow[']d that the men when in their power assist them in every thing as they do the men in makeing traps and hunting Beaver but whatever affection or regard they have for their wives it cannot be compar['d] with the tenderness they have for their Children, whom they in no pretence ever correct, Excuseing their Errors or Whims by saying they have no sense and they will much sooner pardon or overlook an affront put on them than Violence however so necessary towards their Children and for the same cause nothing pleases the parents more than a little attention or favour shown their Children – and as to them though they cannot be said to want Gratitude still they are far from paying that Respect[,] Reverence and assistance that is done in the civilized world[.]

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