[312] Bancroft, Native Races, &c., i. 389.
[313] Ibid., i. 436.
[314] Ibid., i. 512.
[315] Fitzroy, Voyage of ‘Beagle,’ ii. 152.
[316] Compare Bowen’s Central Africa, pp. 303-304; Gray’s Travels in South Africa, p. 56; Pinkerton, xvi. 568-569; and Bancroft, i. 66.
[317] Bowen, p. 104.
[318] Pinkerton, xvi. 873.
[319] Lichtenstein, i. 263.
[320] Thus Bonwick mentions a custom whereby a woman ‘was allowed some chance in her life-settlement. The applicant for her hand was permitted on a certain day to run for her;’ if she passed three appointed trees without being caught she was free.—Daily Life, &c., p. 70.
[321] It is also an old custom in Finland, that, when a suitor tells a girl he has settled matters with her parents, she should ask him what he has given, and then, declaring it to be too little, should proceed to run away from him.—Marmier, i. 176.