[278] Howitt, ‘Australian Group Relations,’ in ‘Smith. Rep.,’ 1883, p. 817.
[279] As regards the Melanesians, Dr. Codrington remarks (loc. cit. pp. 22, et seq.): ‘Speaking generally, it may be said that to a Melanesian man all women, of his own generation at least, are either sisters or wives, to the Melanesian woman all men are either brothers or husbands.... It must not be understood that a Melanesian regards all women who are not of his own division as, in fact, his wives, or conceives himself to have rights which he may exercise in regard to those women of them who are unmarried; but the women who may be his wives by marriage and those who cannot possibly be so, stand in a widely different relation to him.'
[280] Curr, loc. cit. vol. i. p. 126.
[281] Ibid., vol. i. p. 142.
[282] Mathew, in ‘Jour. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales,’ vol. xxiii. p. 404.
[283] Man, in ‘Jour. Anthr. Inst.,’ vol. xii. p. 135.
[284] Burchell, ‘Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa,’ vol. ii. p. 60.
[285] Barrow, ‘Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa,’ vol. i. p. 276.
[286] Woldt, ‘Capitain Jacobsen’s Reise an der Nordwestküste Amerikas,’ pp. 20, 21, 28, et seq.
[287] Ratzel, ‘Völkerkunde,’ vol. ii. p. 430.