STRANGE CUSTOMS OF SAVAGE RULERS. 



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with which she rubbed herself before them all, telling them that this 

 would render her invulnerable, and that now she could subdue the 

 universe. Immediately, her subjects, seized with a savage enthu- 

 siam, massacred all their male children, and immense quantities of 

 this human ointment were made; and of which, they say, some is 

 still preserved among the Jagas." 



WILD FREAKS OF A fBMALE SORCERER. 



An empire of Amazons was apparently contemplated. Not 

 only were male children to be massacred, but women's flesh was 

 forbidden to be eaten. But she soon found it impossible to battle 

 against nature. Mothers concealed their male infants ; and though 

 officers were appointed to be present at every birth to see that the 

 law was carried out, yet, after a time, she found it necessary to 

 order that the invulnerable ointment might be made of the bodies 

 of infants captured in war. Whole territories were conquered and 

 laid waste; and disaffection in her own army she kept down by 

 having the forces continually employed. 



