Primitive Manners and Customs

by James Anson Farrer

[342] Bancroft, Native Races, i. 109, 132.

[343] Macpherson, 65.

[344] Collins (1796), New South Wales, 362, 351-3.

[345] Hunter (1790), Voyage to New South Wales, 62, 494.

[346] Trans. Eth. Soc., i. 217-8, and compare Sir G. Grey, Travels, &c., ii. 224.

[347] Hunter, 466, 479.

[348] Lecky, Hist. of England in Eighteenth Century, ii. 366.

[349] Bonwick, Daily Life of the Tasmanians, 60.

[350] Rochefort, Les Îles Antilles, 545. ‘Ils ne prenaient pour femmes légitimes que leurs cousines, qui leur étoyent aquises de droit naturel.’ Compare Burckhardt’s Notes on the Bedouins, 64: ‘A man has an exclusive right to the hand of his cousin;’ not that he was obliged to marry her, but without his consent she could marry no one else.’

[351] Rochefort, Les Îles Antilles, 460. ‘Il est à remarquer que les Caraibes du continent, hommes et femmes, parlent un même langage, n’ayant point corrumpu leur langue naturelle par des mariages avec des femmes étrangères.’ (1511.)