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had milk: but the irritation, of the nipple, sucked by the 
child, caused the accumulation of that liquid. The mill: was 
thick and very sweet. The father, astonished at the in- 
creased size of his breast, suckled his child two or three 
times a day during five months. He drew on himself the 
attention of his neighbours, but he never thought, as he 
probably would have done in Europe, of deriving any advan- 
tage from the curiosity he excited. We saw the certificate, 
which had been drawn up on the spot, to attest this remark- 
able fact, eye-witnesses of which are still living. They 
assured us that, during this suckling, the child had no other 
nourishment than the milk of his father. Lozano, who was 
not at Arenas during our journey in the missions, came to 
us at Curuana. He was accompanied by his son, then 
thirteen or fourteen years of age. M. Bonpland examined 
with attention the father’s breasts, and found them wrinkled 
like those of a woman who has given suck. He observed 
that the left breast in particular was much enlarged ; which 
Lozano explained to us from the circumstance, that the 
two breasts did not furnish milk in the same abundance. 
Don Vicente Emparan, governor of the province, sent a cir- 
cumstantial account of this phenomenon to Cadiz. 
It is not a very uncommon circumstance, to find, among 
animals, males whose breasts contain milk ; and climate does 
not appear to exercise any marked influence on the greater 
or less abundance of this secretion. The ancients cite the 
milk of the he-goats of Lemnos and Corsica. In our own 
time, we have seen in Hanover, a he-goat, which for a great 
number of years was milked every other day, and yielded 
more milk than a female goat. Among the signs of the 
alleged weakness of the Americans, travellers have men- 
tioned the milk contained in the breasts of men. It is, 
however, improbable, that it has ever been observed in a 
whole tribe, in some part of America unknown to modem 
travellers ; and I can affirm that at present it is not more 
common in the new continent, than in the old. The labourer 
of Arenas, whose case has just been mentioned, was not of 
the copper-coloured race of Chayma Indians, but was a 
white man, descended from Europeans. Moreover, the ana- 
tomists of St. Petersburgh have observed that, among the 
lower orders of the people in Russia, milk in the breasts of 
