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John Gabriel Stedman was a renowned 18th-century British traveler and author, known for his explorations in Southern Africa and East Africa. Born in the Netherlands in 1744, he moved to Britain and spent approximately 20 years in South Africa, participating in the trade activities of the Dutch East India Company and conducting numerous expeditions, which he meticulously documented.

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“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.”

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...