Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.
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But Arenas Is No Longer A Mission; And The
Natives, Governed By A Regular Priest,* (* The Four Villages Of
Arenas, Macarapana, Mariguitar, And Aricagua, Founded By Aragonese
Capuchins, Are Called Doctrinas De Encomienda.) Are Better Clothed,
And More Civilized.
Their church is also distinguished in the
country by some rude paintings which adorn its walls.
A narrow
border encloses figures of armadilloes, caymans, jaguars, and other
animals peculiar to the new world.
In this village lives a labourer, Francisco Lozano, who presented a
highly curious physiological phenomenon. This man has suckled a
child with his own milk. The mother having fallen sick, the father,
to quiet the infant, took it into his bed, and pressed it to his
bosom. Lozano, then thirty-two years of age, had never before
remarked that he had milk: but the irritation of the nipple, sucked
by the child, caused the accumulation of that liquid. The milk was
thick and very sweet. The father, astonished at the increased size
of his breast, suckled his child two or three times a day during
five months. He drew on himself the attention of his neighbours,
but he never thought, as he probably would have done in Europe, of
deriving any advantage from the curiosity he excited. We saw the
certificate, which had been drawn up on the spot, to attest this
remarkable fact, eye-witnesses of which are still living. They
assured us that, during this suckling, the child had no other
nourishment than the milk of his father.
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