1 They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men.
2 They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke.
3 The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar.
4 One of them spied me, and gave notice to the rest; five of them advanced toward me, leaving the women and children at the fire.
5 There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.
6 The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determined by their own judgment.
7 They are dressed by men till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, although their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial offices.
8 I conversed only with women, tradesmen, flappers, and court-pages, during two months of my abode there; by which, at last, I rendered myself extremely contemptible; yet these were the only people from whom I could ever receive a reasonable answer.
9 The women of the island have abundance of vivacity: they, contemn their husbands, and are exceedingly fond of strangers, whereof there is always a considerable number from the continent below, attending at court, either upon affairs of the several towns and corporations, or their own particular occasions, but are much despised, because they want the same endowments.