350 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
their arrival at the former; fome famihes, there refident, having 
the hereditary exercife of this antient pra(flice. 
The numbers which undergo it are not very confiderable, 
and it is fatal only to a very fmall proportion of them. 
Thofe flaves which are emafculated for the exclufive ufe of 
the Furian monarch fulfer within his palace. 
