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** the weft by the country of the Matatanes, 

 ** Their tillages are built on the fummits of 

 fmall fteep mounts^ which are fo much 

 *' the more difficult to be afcended, as 

 ** they have muhiplled thofe obftacles that 

 " render approach to them almoft imprac- 

 ** ticable. ' The chief of the Mahaffalles and 

 ** Remouzai did not agree refpei^iing two 

 ** points which are particularly worthy of be- 

 ** ing afcertained. The general opinion of the 

 ** people of Madagafcar is, that the Kimos 

 ** women have no breafts, and that they 

 " nourilh their children with cows milk. It 

 ** is aflerted, alfo, that they have no men- 

 *' ftrual flux ; but that at thofe periods 

 when other women are fubje^^l to this eva- 

 cuation, the fkin of their body becomes 

 ** of a blood-red colour, Remouzai affured 

 *' me that this opinion was well founded j 

 ** but the chief of the MahafFalles contra- 

 " dided it. We muft, therefore, fufpend 



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