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and then beating them upon a rock, or log, which 
is placed there for the purpose. 
Our hearts sadden when we contemplate the 
condition of the heathen female. No sight was 
more revolting to my feelings in that country, 
than to see an infant tied fast to the back of its 
mother, swinging hack and forth, with a vertical 
sun darting his rays full in its face, without 
even the covering of a bonnet or anything of 
the kind to shield it from the heat, while the 
mother, with every stroke of her hoe, or the cloth 
she was throwing upon the rock to beat the di r t 
out of it, added pain to her child. 
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