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dominions, beholding only such as were brought to 
them by accident or adventure, and not permitting 
even these to dwell more than a few days among 
them. Not only is this story preserved in several 
works both Mahommedan and Hindoo, but sculptures 
of the Amazon armed and deprived of the right 
breast are found in various parts of India. It is 
quite evident that the two stories have the same origin, 
and whether we refer the legend to the Euxine 
and Caspian seas upon the relation of Justin and 
Diodorus, or whether we take it from the adventures 
of Kama Rupa, we cannot but suppose that it must 
have arisen from the fact of some class of persons 
habitually destroying their male children. It may 
be worthy of remark that in Marawa at this day 
there is a race of people called Kalaris, robbers 
by birth and education, with whom the women 
are regarded as the heads of families, enjoying an 
extraordinary authority over the men, and being 
esteemed the lawful partner of the brother, father, 
uncles, and other relations of the husband, as much 
as of the husband himself. 
I remember to have been particularly struck with 
the contrast which is observable between the bearing 
of the Brahmin and that of the other castes of Hin- 
doos towards Europeans, in the great city of Benares. 
The fulsome adulation and abject servility of the 
latter recall a passage of Rousseau a d’Alembert; 
“ Les outrager par ces evidens mensonges, n’est ce pas 
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