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Amazons

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Ama`lia, Anna
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A fabulous race of female warriors, who had a queen of their own, and excluded all men from their community; to perpetuate the race, they cohabited with men of the neighbouring nations; slew all the male children they gave birth to, or sent them to their fathers; burnt off the right breasts of the females, that they might be able to wield the bow in war.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Amazons'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/amazons.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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