The consent of the sachem was obtained to their marriage, and he usually joined their hands together and they went away as man and wife. The man had but one wife, unless he was a sachem or occupied an exceptionally high position. The marriage tie was respected, and unfaithfulness was looked upon as a crime. In cases of separation the wife was given her share of the goods and departed, being then at liberty to marry again. The Mohegans were never charged with licentiousness, as were Indians elsewhere. The women were described as modest and coy in their behavior, and they indignantly repelled all improper advances made by the whites. There is no account of any insulting treatment having been offered to female white captives. Children were kindly treated, but knew little of parental restraint. The girls were early taught quiet submission to the labors of their position, and the boys were encouraged to independence, and trained to become skillful in the chase and in war.

If anv deformed children were born, they must have

FLINT SKIN SCRAPER.

FLINT PEE FORATOR.

died in infancy, for the European visitors stated that none were cross-eyed, blind, crippled, lame or hunchbacked ; and that all were well-fashioned, strong in constitution of body, well-proportioned and without blemish. They were kind in their treatment of the sick. They had learned the medicinal virtues of many herbs and of a few other simples. They bound

HAND-MADE AND FINCiER-MARKED VESSEL OF POT T E

up wounds with mollifying preparations of leaves. They treated fevers by opening the pores of the skin with a vapor bath ; but their chief reliance in many diseases was upon supernatural cures. Their medicine-man, or pow-wow, excited their superstitious susceptibilities and worked upon their imaginations, using, with great solemnity, the ceremonial stones already described to assist in his work.