[505] Hayes, The Open Polar Sea, 432; quoted by Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 118, 119. Cf. also, Letourneau, op. cit., 117.
[506] Turner, "Ethnology of the Ungava District," in XI. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 188. "I knew of one instance," he adds, "when a girl was tied to a snow house for a period of two weeks, and not allowed to go out." Forcible abduction is referred to by Murdoch, "Point Barrow Expedition," ibid., IX, 412, 413. The practice also exists at Smith Sound: Bessels, in Naturalist, XVIII, Part IX; Murdoch, op. cit., 411.
[507] Murdoch, op. cit., 411, citing Egede's Greenland.
[508] Beckwith, "Customs of the Dakotahs," Rep. Smith. Inst., 1886, Part I, 256 (abduction with purchase). Among the Siouan Indians, according to McGee, there is no marriage by capture; but captive women are sometimes espoused and girls are occasionally abducted: XV. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 178.
[509] Carver, Travels, 374; Letourneau, L'évolution du mariage, 118; Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, 85. A similar custom exists among the Khands of Orissa: Lubbock, op. cit., 114; McLennan, Studies, I, 13-15; Post, Familienrecht, 144.
[510] Dargun, Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 88, who names many other peoples among whom the like custom prevails. Cf. Lubbock, op. cit., 123, 113 ff.; Burckhardt, Notes on the Beduins and Wahabys, I, 263, 108, 234. Cf. Kohler, "Das vorislamitische Recht der Araber," ZVR., VIII, 247, 248.
[511] Letourneau, op. cit., 118, 119; cf. Lubbock, op. cit., 117, 118. In Kamchatka, according to Müller, Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie, II, 89, "attraper une fille est leur expression pour dire marier."—Lubbock, 118.
[512] Bancroft, Native Races, I, 732, 733. For further examples of "ceremonial" capture or abduction, see Peal, "On the 'Morong,'" Jour. Anth. Inst., XXII, 255; Klemm, Kulturgeschichte, IV, 27 (Tscherkessen).
[513] Dargun, Mutterrecht und Raubehe, 88, 89, 108 ff.; Lubbock, op. cit., 118-20.
[514] Bancroft, op. cit., I, 389.