Then they make their appearance abroad again, and are allowed to marry. They then again dress their hair, which before they would not touch. Tlie married women let their hair grow to the waist & smear it v.- ith oil. When they are unweE tliey do not eat witli their husbands, and tliey sup their drink out of the hand. Tlie men let tlie hair grow on one side of the liead lor a braid ; tlie rest is cut ofi". If one \u\\ the other, it is not punished; whoever it concerns meditates vengeance if satisfaction be not made. In the month of August a universal torment seizes them, so that they run Like men possessed, regarding neither hedges nor ditches, and like mad dogs

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resting no where except from sheer inability. They hold this in singular respect. The Birds most common are wild Pigeons; these are so numerous that they shut out the sunsliine.

When tlie fort, staked out at the Manliates, will be completed,

it is to be named Amsterdam. The Fort at the South

*^uie"Fort.°'^ RiYcr is already vacated, in order to strengthen -the

Colony. For purposes of trade, only one yacht is sent

there, in order to avoid expense.

The Sicke?ianes dweU about the North, between the Brownists and the Dutch. The chief of this nation hath lately made an agreement with Pieter Barents, not to trade w^ith any other than liim, Jaques Elekes had imprisoned him in the year 1622 in his yacht and obliged him to pay a lieavy ransom, or else he should " cup " him. He paid one hundi-ed and forty fathoms of Zeev)an, which consists of small beads they manufacture themselves, and wliicii they prize as jewels. On this account he has no confidence in any one but Bareutsen now^