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[Page 675]

571.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

[Margin note]  Sinus Pudoris
in regard to the Sinus Pudoris that grand Quære of Natural historians Many whoom I askd both Dutch & Malays declard positively that it did not at all exist & several of these Assurd me that they had during intrigues with Hottentot women had an opportunity of knowing which they had made use of  one however declard that something he had met with but what it was he could not tell & above all a physician of the place declard that he had curd many Hundred Hottentot women of venereal Complaints & that he never saw one without what he describd to be fleshy or rather skinny appendages proceeding from the upper part of the Labia in shape appearance somewhat like Cows teats but flat which hung pendulous  these were very various in lengh  in some scarce half an inch in others three or four  that those which were the only particularities he knew of in those women he apprehended to be what athours have calld sinus pudoris  tho some have describd it as a large skinny equal to a garment for all purposes of

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