[30] Cunningham, Uganda, p. 290.
[31] Ibid. p. 102.
[32] Reade, Savage Africa, p. 261.
[33] Forbes, Dahomey, i. 26.
[34] Warner, in Maclean, op. cit. p. 64.
[35] Brownlee, ibid. p. 112.
[36] Casalis, Basutos, p. 267 sq.
[37] Livingstone, Missionary Travels, p. 513.
Of the Australian Maroura tribe, Lower Darling, we are told that before the advent of the whites “their laws were strict, especially those regarding young men and young women. It was almost death to a young lad or man who had sexual intercourse till married.”[38] Among various tribes in Western Victoria “illegitimacy is rare, and is looked upon with such abhorrence that the mother is always severely beaten by her relatives, and sometimes put to death and burned. Her child is occasionally killed and burned with her. The father of the child is also punished with the greatest severity, and occasionally killed.”[39]
[38] Holden, in Taplin, Folklore of the South Australian Aborigines, p. 19.