[814] Eth. Stud., p. 183.

[815] Proc. R.S.Q., p. 48.

[816] Ibid., p. 51.

[817] Grey, ii. p. 252.

[818] p. 280.

[819] Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 232, 233.

[820] N. Q. Eth. Bull. 8, p. 6.

[821] We have collected here twenty-two statements in which there are many more tribes included.

[822] In this connection the bachelors' camp in Australia is mentioned by Hutton Webster (amongst the Kurnai, Euahlayi, Arunta and Port Darwin tribes). The author speaks of it as a symptom of the general principle of separation of sexes. Primitive Secret Societies, pp. 1, 3.

[823] On these connections in general compare the interesting article of Steinmetz, Zeitschrift f. Sozialw., II, pp. 613, 614.