[381] Here and there among low races one finds examples of alleged incest recorded. Thus among the New England Indians marriages between brothers and sisters are said to have existed: Waitz, Anthropologie, III, 106. "Among these people only," says Turner of the Innuit on the Labrador coast, "have I heard of a son who took his mother as a wife, and when the sentiment of the community compelled him to discard her he took two other women, who were so persecuted by the mother that they believed themselves to be wholly under her influence." "Ethnology of the Ungava District," XI. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 180. So also D'Evreux suspects incest, not marriage, between brothers and sisters among the Brazilian Indians: Voyage dans le Nord du Brésil, 1613-14, 85-95. On the other hand, Dobrizhoffer says the Abipones abhor marriage with near kindred: Relation, II, 212; and the same appears to be true of the Kafirs: Ratzel, History of Mankind, II, 435. See also the examples mentioned by Grosse, Die Formen der Familie, 129, 130.
[382] Westermarck, op. cit., 297; Powers, Tribes of California, 192.
[383] Westermarck, op. cit., 297, 305, 306.
[384] Ibid., 318, 320, 321. Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 55, 56, expresses a similar view.
[385] Westermarck, op. cit., 321, citing Egede, Description of Greenland, 141; Nansen, The First Crossing of Greenland, II, 330.
[386] Westermarck, op. cit., 321, citing Macpherson, Memorials of Service in India, 69.
[387] Tylor, On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions, 268; Piedrahita, Historia general (1688), 11; Westermarck, op. cit., 321.
[388] Ibid., 322; Wallace, Travels on the Amazon, 497.
[389] Morgan, Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines; Fiske, Discovery of America, I, 64 ff.; Westermarck, op. cit., 324.
[390] Maine, Early History of Institutions, 7, 78, 106, 195, 200, passim; Early Law and Custom, chap, viii; Krauss, Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven, 14, 64, 72, 79 ff., 84, etc.; Kohler, "Indisches Ehe- und Familienrecht," ZVR., III, 362; cf. Lyall, Asiatic Studies, chap. vii.