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of the Semitic faiths, it reached these Negro countries as a 

 practice specially connected with Muhammadanism. 



At the women's luish school in Liberia, as in so many 

 other parts of Negro Africa, a practice somewhat analogous 

 to circumcision?? is in force the excision of the clitoris. This 



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operation (and perhaps the elongation of the labia minora) is 

 probably universal throughout Liberia, except, of course, amongst 

 the thirty thousand Christians. A discussion on the usefulness 

 or uselessness of this practice would be out of place in the 

 present work : it is sufficient to note that it is firmly established 



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