[694] Riggs, "Dakota Grammar," Cont. N. A. Eth., IX, 206, gives an example. Cf. also the cases mentioned by Westermarck, op. cit., 215.
[695] Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas, 112, 113; with whom Wake, op. cit., 213, 215, agrees.
[696] Westermarck, op. cit., 220; Leslie, Among the Zulus and Amatongas, 194; cf. also Ploss, Das Weib, I, 54; Darwin, op. cit., 598. The despotic power of the husband is modified in practice through influence of the wife's friends: Rehme, in ZVR., X, 39, 40, 41, 42; Ratzel, Hist. of Mankind, II, 434.
[697] Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas, 192, 444, 445.
[698] Darwin, op. cit., 599. Freedom of choice in varying degrees, often with wife-purchase, prevails among the Ashantees, Loangos, Sognos, Shulis, Mádis, Marutses, Hottentots, and Gold Coast negroes: Westermarck, op. cit., 220, 221; Ploss, op. cit., I, 54. Cf. Wake, op. cit., 214, 215; Munzinger, Ostaf. Studien, 146, 207, 324; Waitz, Anthropologie, II, 116, 117.
[699] For these examples see Westermarck, op. cit., 218, notes.
[700] Westermarck, op. cit., 218. According to Kohler, "Studien," ZVR., V, 385, actual wife-capture still exists in the New Britain islands. "Es kommt vor, dass die Frau dem ersten Mann weggenommen wird und dass die Leiche des getödteten ersten Mannes das Hochzeitsmahl bildet."—Powell, "Unter den Cannibalen," Globus (1884), 328.
[701] Kohler, "Das Recht der Birmannen," ZVR., VI, 166, 168.
[702] Westermarck, op. cit., 219.
[703] See Westermarck, op. cit., 218-20, and the many examples there mentioned, with citation of the sources; and compare Post, Familienrecht, 166, 168, 169, passim; Kohler, in ZVR., V, 354 ff.; Wake, op. cit., 215, 216; Prjévalski, Mongolie et pays des Tangoutes (1880), 47, 207; Huc, Travels in Tartary, I, 52, 185. For female choice in Australia: Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, 234, 242, 326, 327 (Kurnai); 276, 280, 289, 348-54 (elopement). The Kalmuck wife is a free woman: Koehne, "Das Recht der Kalmücken," ZVR., IX, 463; and Wake gives interesting proofs of the coexistence of real affection with polygyny and purchase: op. cit., 218.