" Wight narrates that he was
called to see a woman, the wife of an East Indian laborer on the
Isle of Trinidad, who had been delivered of a fetus 6 inches
long, about four months old, and having a cord of about 18 inches
in length. He removed the placenta, and in about half an hour the
woman was delivered of a full-term white female child. The first
child was dark, like the mother and father, and the mother denied
any possibility of its being a white man's child; but this was
only natural on her part, as East Indian husbands are so
intensely jealous that they would even kill an unfaithful wife.
Both the mother and the mysterious white baby are doing well.
Bouillon speaks of a negress in Guadeloupe who bore twins, one a
negro and the other a mulatto. She had sexual congress with both
a negro and a white man.
Delmas, a surgeon of Rouen, tells of a woman of thirty-six who
was delivered in the hospital of his city on February 26, 1806,
of two children, one black and the other a mulatto. She had been
pregnant eight months, and had had intercourse with a negro twice
about her fourth month of pregnancy, though living with the white
man who first impregnated her. Two placentae were expelled some
time after the twins, and showed a membranous junction.
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