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times 3 day during five months. 

 He drew on himself the attention 

 of his neighbours, but he never 

 thought, as he probably would 

 have done in Europe, of deriving 

 any advantage from the curiosity 

 he excited. We saw the certifi- 

 cate, which had been drawn up 

 on the spot, to attest this remark- 

 able fact, eye-witnesses of which 

 are still living. They assured us, 

 that, during this suckling, the 

 child had no other nourishment 

 than the milk of his father. 

 Lozano, who was not at Arenas 

 during our journey in the Missions, 

 came to us at Cumana. He was 

 accompanied by his son, who was 

 then thirteen or fourteen years of 

 age. Mr. Bonpland examined 

 with attention the father's breast, 

 and found it wrinkled like those 

 of women who have given suck. 

 He observed, that the left breast 

 in particular was much enlarged ; 

 which Lozano explained to us 

 from the circumstance, that the 

 two breasts did not furnish milk 

 in the same abundance. Don Vi- 

 cente Emparan, governor of the 

 province, sent a circumstantial 

 account of this phenomenon to 

 Cadiz. 



It is not a very uncommon 

 circumstance, to find, both among 

 liumankind and animals,* males 

 whose breasts contain milk; and 

 the climate does not appear to 

 exert any marked influence on 

 the more or less abundance of 

 this secretion. The ancients cite 

 the milk of the he goats of 

 Lemnos and Corsica. In our own 

 time, we have seen in the country 



* Allianab. Joannidcs de Mam- 

 marum Sliiict. 1301, ji. G. llallcr, 

 Elera. Phj/siol. T. 7, V. II, page 18. 



of Hanover, a he goat, which for 

 a great number of years was 

 milked every other day, and 

 yielded more milk than a female 

 goat.* Among the signs of the 

 pretended weakness of the Ame- 

 ricans, travellers have mentioned 

 the milk contained in the breasts 

 of men.f It is however impro- 

 bable, that it has ever been ob- 

 served in a whole tribe, in some 

 part of America unknown to 

 modern travellers; and I can 

 affirm, that at present it is not 

 more common m the new con- 

 tinent, than in the old. The 

 labourer of Arenas, whose history 

 we have just related, is not of the 

 copper-coloured race of Chayma 

 Indians : he is a white man, de- 

 scended from Europeans. More- 

 over, the anatomists of Peters- 

 burg :{: have observed, that among 

 the lower orders of the people in 

 Russia, milk in the breasts of men 

 is much more frequent, than 

 among the more southern nations; 

 and the Russians have never been 

 deemed weak and effeminate. 



There exists among the varie- 

 ties of our kind a race of men, 

 whose breasts at the age of puberty 

 acquire a considerable bulk. Lo- 

 zano did not belong to this class ; 

 and he often repeated to us, that 

 it was only the irritation of the nip- 



* Blumenbach, Vergleich. Anat. 

 1805, p. 504. Hanoevrisches Magaz. 

 1787, page 753. Reil. Arch, der 

 Physiol. T. 3, p. 449. Montegre, 

 Gazette de Sante, 1812, p. 110. 



f It has even been seriously re- 

 lated, that in a part of Brazil it is the 

 men, and not the women, that suckle 

 children. Clavigero, Storia diMes- 

 bico. T. 4. 169. 



% Comment. Petrop. Tom. 3, p. 

 278. 



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