Note 178 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
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Smyth and Lowe, speaking of the Sencis of Peru, remark: “They give no quarter, and take no prisoners in the battle.… The women and children are taken for slaves, and if there are any in infancy, or much advanced in age, they are killed as useless.”178. Whether the fate of the captive women and children was really slavery, is not clear from this short note.