AFRICA. si 
to maintain that this barbarous prafllce ex* 
ifts ; and what Dr. Sparmann relates in his 
Voyage to the Cape *, refpefting the fate of 
children at the breaft who lofe their mothers, 
is equally void of foundation, 
x'lnother cuftom, no lefs horrid/* faye 
he, " which has not been hitherto remarked 
by any one, but which I have been /ully 
ajj'ured exi(i:s amongft the Hottentots, is 
*' that, if a mother happens to die, the child 
*^ at her breaft is interred alive with her. 
*^ This very year, in the place where I was, 
the following circumflance happened: — > 
A Hottentot woman having died on the 
^* farm of an epidemical diftemper, the reft 
" of the Hottentots^ who thought that they 
were not in a condition to educate the fe- 
male child which fhe had Ieft> or who 
were unwilling to take the burden of it, 
" had wrapped it up, ftill alive, in a fheep's 
" Ikin, in order to inter it with the deceafed 
mother; but feme farmers in the neigh- 
*^ bourhood prevented them from accom- 
plifhing their defign. My landlady, who 
was already advanced in years, told me 
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