[How they mourn for the dead.] Their manner of mourning for the dead is, that all the Women that are present do loose their hair, and let it hang down, and with their two hands together behind their heads do make an hideous noise, crying and roaring as loud as they can, much praysing and extolling the Virtues of the deceased, tho there were none in him:  and lamenting their own woful condition to live without him.  Thus for three or four mornings they do rise early, and lament in this manner, also on evenings.  Mean while the men stand still and sigh.

[The nature of the Women.] These women are of a very strong couragious spirit, taking nothing very much to heart, mourning more for fashion than affection, never overwhelmed neither with grief or love.  And when their Husbands are dead, all their care is where to get others, which they cannot long be without.

[How they Bury.] It may not be unacceptable to relate how they burn their Dead.  As for Persons of inferior Quality, they are interred in some convenient places in the Woods, there being no set places for Burial, carried thither by two or three of their Friends, and Buried without any more ado.  They lay them on their Backs, with their heads to the West and their feet to the East, as we do.  Then those People go and wash; for they are unclean by handling the Dead.

[How they Burn.] But Persons of greater quality are burned, and that with Ceremony.  When they are dead they lay them out, and put a Cloth over their Privy Parts, and then wash the Body, by taking half a dozen Pitchers of water, and pouring upon it.  Then they cover him with a Linnen cloth, and so carry him forth to burning.  This is when they burn the Body speedily.  But otherwise, they cut down a Tree that may be proper for their purpose, and hollow it, like a Hog-trough, and put the Body being Embowelled and Embalmed into it, filled up all about with Pepper.  And so let it lay in the house, until it be the King’s Command to carry it out to the burning.  For that they dare not do without the King’s order, if the Person deceased be a Courtier.  Sometimes the King gives no order in a great while, it may be not at all.  Therefore in such cases, that the Body may not take up house-room, or annoy them, they dig an hole in the floar of their house, and put hollowed tree and all in and cover it.  If afterwards the King commands to burn the Body, they take it up again in obedience to the King, otherwise there it lyes.

Their order for burning is thus.  If the Body be not thus put into a Trough or hollowed Tree, it is laid upon one of his Bedsteds, which is a great honour among them.  This Bedsted with the Body on it, or hollowed Tree with the Body in it, is fastned with Poles, and carried upon Mens Shoulders unto the place of Burning:  which is some eminent place in the Fields or High ways, or where else they please.  There they lay it upon a Pile of Wood some two or three foot high.  Then they pile up more Wood upon the