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The Travels of Marco Polo
Note 7.—There is much about the exposure of children, and about Chinese foundling hospitals, in the Lettres Édifiantes, especially in Recueil xv. 83, seqq. It is there stated that frequently a person not in circumstances to pay for a wife for his son, would visit the foundling hospital to seek one.
The Travels of Marco Polo
The same story is related by a missionary in the Lettres Édifiantes of certain unknown islands supposed to lie south of the Marian group.
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