They are indeed lower than brutes in their impulses, for the only way parents can save their infant girls from being maltreated is by the practice of Infibulation, to which, as Paulitschke himself tells us, the girls are subjected at the early age of four, or even three; yet, even this, he likewise informs us, is not always effectual.
"Primitive Love and Love-Stories"
Henry Theophilus Finck