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Feeding the Nanny-Goats

(274) flesh of the kid is equal in flavor to the they might be allowed to anoint themmost delicate lamb. selves with a kind of aromatic ointment Goats are exceedingly numerous in which she used herself. Offended at the South Guinea; and some of the negroes request, they say, she took a box containthere have a singular notion that their ing a most nauseous compound, and strong and offensive smell was given to rubbed their bodies with it; and that this them, as a punishment, for having re- caused the unpleasant smell thence proquested of a certain female deity that duced to continue ever afterwards. sies.