Note 55 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 4)

Punishment for adultery seems to have varied with almost every tribe. Du Pratz, History of Louisiana, II, 197. Bossu says of the Choctaws: “If a woman commits an infidelity, she must pass through the meadow, i.e., all the young men, and sometimes, the old ones, satisfy their brutality on her by turns.” Travels, I, 308. Among the Alabama Indians he describes a different punishment. Ib., 233. Bartram’s Travels, 512. Adair’s is by far the best and fullest account.