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the West African Negroes is noteworthy, and a case occurred 

 last year (1905) in which six children were born alive at one 

 birth from a Negress of the Gold Coast. 



After the birth of a child it is, as already mentioneci, the 

 invariable custom throughout the aborigines of Liberia that 

 the husband shall have no further connection with this wife 

 until the child is tully weaned. This means an interval of at 



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least eighteen months ; but amongst the Mandingo the practice 

 is pushed even further, for it is stated by Mr. Braham that 

 sexual intercourse between husband and wife is absolutely 

 prohibited for three years after the birth of a girl-child and 

 for tour years in the case ot a boy. It this practice was rigidly 

 adhered to it would of course limit the issue from one woman 

 to quite a moderate number ot children, as the women probably 



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