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Infanticide in a starving city like this is dreadfully common. " For the parents, seeing their children must be doomed to poverty, think it better at once to let the soul escape in search of a more happy asylum than to linger in one condemned to want and wretchedness." The infanticide is, however, exclusively confined to the destruction of female children, the sons being permitted to live in order to continue the ancestral sacrifices.
One mother I met, who was employed by the mission, told the ...missionary in ordinary conversation that she had suffocated in turn three of her female children within a few days of birth ; and, when a fourth was born, so enraged was her husband to discover that it was also a girl that he seized it by the legs and struck it against the wall and killed it.
Dead children, and often living infants, are thrown out on the common among the gravemounds, and may be seen there any morning being gnawed by dogs. Mr. Tremberth of the Bible Christian Mission, leaving by the south gate early one Digitized by VjOOQ IC I02 An Australian in China, morningi disturbed a dog eating a still living child that had been thrown over the wall during the night.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Infanticide in a starving city like this is dreadfully common. " For the parents, seeing their children must be doomed to poverty, think it better at once to let the soul escape in search of a more happy asylum than to linger in one condemned to want and wretchedness." The infanticide is, however, exclusively confined to the destruction of female children, the sons being permitted to live in order to continue the ancestral sacrifices.
One mother I met, who was employed by the mission, told the ...missionary in ordinary conversation that she had suffocated in turn three of her female children within a few days of birth ; and, when a fourth was born, so enraged was her husband to discover that it was also a girl that he seized it by the legs and struck it against the wall and killed it.
Dead children, and often living infants, are thrown out on the common among the gravemounds, and may be seen there any morning being gnawed by dogs. Mr. Tremberth of the Bible Christian Mission, leaving by the south gate early one Digitized by VjOOQ IC I02 An Australian in China, morningi disturbed a dog eating a still living child that had been thrown over the wall during the night.
What to read after An Australian in China: Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China ...?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Morrison George Ernest to read onlineMoreLess
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