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alfa cut their fore-teeth to a fliarp point, which gives 

 them a frightful appearance, refembling in fome degree 

 thofe of a fhark : and all their males are circumcifed, after 

 the manner of the Jews. , 



Among the flrange productions of nature, a fpecies of 

 people known by the name of Accorees^ defer ves to be 

 particularly noticed. — The Accorees^ or Two-fingers, live 

 amongft the Seramaca negroes, in the very upper parts of 

 the river of that name. This heterogeneous tribe are fo 

 deformed in their hands and feet, that while fome have 

 three or four fingers and toes on each hand and foot^ 

 others have only two, which refemble the claws of a 

 lobfter^ or rather limbs that have been cured after mu- 

 tilation by fire, or fome other accident. This deformity 

 in one perfon would caufe but fmall admiration ; but that 

 a whole community fhould be afl3i6led with this fingula- 

 rity, is certainly a moft wonderful phoenomenon. Having 

 feen but two myfelf, and that at too great a difianee to 

 take a drawing of them, I cannot pretend to vouch for the 

 truth of what I have only heard; but an engraving of one 

 of thefe figures was pofitively fent to the Society of Arts 

 and Sciences at Haerlem ; while I beg leave to introduce, as 

 a further voucher, the following extract from an old book 

 of furgery and anatomy, procured me by the ingenious 

 and learned Owen CambrUge^ Efquire, of Twickenham. 

 After Michaelmas term, in the year 1629, a body was 

 brought from the place of execution to the College of 

 Phyficians, to be cut up for an anatomy; and by chance 



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