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of

are

XII.

Interrogatory X11

There are

Villages in the neighbourhood

Canton set apart for Sepers. If the persons

wealthy it is often concealed, or the subject.

is driven out and not acknowledged by his friends-

In

many villages

a

but

may be seen apart from

or two or three huts

the Village-

These

often contain Lepers. I do not know of any thing

like an

Hospital except at Macar and that is

Kept by the Portuguese.