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they are great cheats, being much fonder of acquiring any thing in this way than of procuring it from the sweat of their Brow. Those few, whose vicinity enables them with ease to come to the Establishment, do all in their power by false report &^c to hinder their Relatives further off from reaping the same advantages, with a view no doubt of monopolizing the whole Traffic, in which hitherto, they have but too well succeeded to the great disadvantage of the latter in many respects. They have a most abominable and inhuman custom of exposing or making away with young Children, particularly the female sex, a little after they come into the world; and the barbarous mother will tell you, upon such occasions, very composedly, that she finds it too hard to support so many children; and yet this same woman, if she happens to have any near a-kin entombed, every time she passes in the neighborhood, will go alone & visit the place, lament and howl and tear her hair and scarify her Body, in a dreadful manner,

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