Lyle,

In his narratives (I'd have to look it up to cite a page), John Smith 
mentions that the invaders were sometimes shot when the were outside the 
fort performing "natural functions" which I recognized as going to the 
bathroom.

And, yes, Smith did not go into anything about a lot of Native ways. If you 
read some of Helen Roundtree's books you can get a better view of some of 
them, but I don't remember her mentioning toileting, but she put some 
details on their daily baths in the nearby rivers and creeks. She also 
provides a more realistic picture of the Huskanaw ceremony that Smith and 
companions thought was murder of the children. Apparently they gave used no 
logic to come to that conclusion since the tribe could not continue if the 
males were routinely killed at puberty. Sure, the mothers cried - you see 
the same thing every September outside an elementary school when the mothers 
send their darlings to Kindergarten for the first time. The mothers cry all 
the way home, but the children turn off the tears almost as soon as Mama is 
out of sight.

Anne

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