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my Hottentots, who afTured me they had never 
before feen it — and which naturalifts, according 
to their laudable cuftotn of receiving as certain 
and invariable principles only what is related 
in books, and by thofe who travel in their clofets, 
will probably doubt — is, that the female, which 
we judged to be the mother of the young male, 
had only one teat, fituated in the middle of 
her breaft. It w^as full of milk, fome of w^hich 
I fqueezed into my hand, and found it to be 
very fweet ; but the tafte of it was far from 
being agreeable : this milk iffued from eight 
fmall orifices, very perceptible and diftinfl:. 
The reft had two dugs, placed generally under 
the breaft, of the fame form as thofe of w^o- 
men ; and of fuch a fize, that more than one 
lady of pleafure who has loft^ a little of her 
plumpnefs, might have envied this charm in 
my female elephants. 
The young male which my imprudent Hot- 
tentot killed, had no tulks ; and when I open- 
ed its lips a little, at the place from which they 
ftiould have grown I perceived only a fmall 
white knob, of the fize of a fwan fhot : its 
flefli was extremely delicate. In one of the 
females I hoped to difcover a foetus, but I was 
deceived^ I found their ftomachs filled with 
5 a very 
