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.
Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (ed. 1796)
