[9] Rosset, ‘Maldive Islands,’ in Jour. Anthr. Inst. xvi. 168 sq.
[10] Stewart, ‘Notes on Northern Cachar,’ in Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xxiv. 614.
[11] Schwaner, Borneo, i. 199.
[12] Angas, Polynesia, p. 373.
[13] Mariner, Natives of the Tonga Islands, ii. 167.
[14] Johnston, Maoria, p. 28 sq.
[15] Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 206.
[16] Wilson and Felkin, Uganda, ii. 90.
[17] Chavanne, Die Sahara, p. 209. Cf. Hanoteau and Letourneux, La Kabylie, ii. 167.
Among many of the lower races a man is not even permitted to marry until he has given some proof of his ability to support and protect his family.[18] Indeed, so closely is the idea that a man is bound to maintain his family connected with that of marriage and fatherhood, that sometimes even repudiated wives with their children are, at least to a certain extent, supported by their former husbands.[19] And upon the death of a husband, the obligation of maintaining his wife and her children devolves on his heirs, the wide-spread custom of a man marrying the widow of his deceased brother being not only a privilege, but, among several peoples, even a duty.[20]