Thou must observe to direct the smoak of it towards the
person who is designed for thee, and carry it so, that she may take such
a taste to this vapor, as to desire of thee that she may smoak of thy
calumet. Show thyself worthy of thy nation, and do honor to thy sex and
youth. Suffer none in the cabbin to which thou art admitted, to want any
thing thy industry, thy art, or thy arrows can procure them, as well for
food, as for peltry, or oil, for the good of their bodies, inside and
outside. Thou hast four winters given thee, for a trial of thy patience
and constancy."
At this the youth never fails of going to the place appointed. If the
girl, (who knows the meaning of this) has no particular aversion to him,
she is soon disposed to ask his calumet of him. In some parts, but not
in this where I am, she signifies her acceptance by blowing it out. Here
she takes it from him, and sucking it, blows the smoak towards his
nostrils, even sometimes so violently, as to make him qualm-sick, at
which she is highly delighted. Nothing, however, passes farther against
the laws of modesty, though she will tress his hair, paint his face, and
imprint on various parts of his body curious devices and flourishes, all
relative to their love; which she pricks in, and rubs over with a
composition that renders the impression uncancellable.
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