[1] Thomson, Through Massailand, p. 448; Johnston, p. 402. [↑]
[2] See above, pp. 53, 58, 80, 81, 124, 52, 74. The Montagnais seem also sometimes to have adopted prisoners. Le Jeune observed a young Iroquois, whom they had adopted, Jesuit relations, VI p. 259. [↑]
[3] Spencer, Ind. Inst., p. 459. [↑]
[6] Another instance of people providing for the wants of others is the marriage by service, the young man serving the parents of his bride, sometimes for several years. This even occurs among the Ainu, Bushmen, and Fuegians; see Westermarck, Human marriage, pp. 390, 391. [↑]
[7] Hildebrand, Recht und Sitte, pp. 1, 2. [↑]
[9] Social institutions are sometimes made; but this is the exception: generally they grow. [↑]
[10] See Ferrero’s beautiful exposition of this character. [↑]