Note (return) — PLAN (continued 2)
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The circumcision of male children is the general practice of Islaemism; it is also used among some of the 201 Khaffers or Cafers of North, Central, and South Africa. Circumcision is not a practice ascribed to a principle of cleanliness, or any other cause, but ancient usage. The period of performing this operation among the Arabs is at the age of eight years.