Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives. - Captain J. G. Stedman

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Captain J. G. Stedman: "Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives."

Captain J. G. Stedman's Quotations

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Buried	Chiefly	Compared	Country
Excesses	Fair	Females	Four
Frequently	Husbands	Indeed	Longevity
Males	Owing	Sorts	Such
Superior	Surinam	Survived	Wives

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