[432] Ib., iii, 30.
[433] Ib., ii, 2.
[434] Kiel and Delitzschs, in their commentaries on Exodus vi, 14, remark, that “‘father’s house’ was a technical term applied to a collection of families called by the name of a common ancestor.” This is a fair definition of a gens.
[435] 1 Samuel, xx, 6, 29.
[436] Numbers, i, 2.
[437] Descript. Eth., ii, 184.
[438] Ashango Land, Appletons’ ed., p. 425, et seq.
[439] Travels in South Africa, Appletons’ ed., ch. 30, p. 660.—“When a young man takes a liking for a girl of another village, and the parents have no objection to the match, he is obliged to come and live at their village. He has to perform certain services for the mother-in-law.... If he becomes tired of living in this state of vassalage, and wishes to return to his own family, he is obliged to leave all his children behind—they belong to his wife.”—Ib., p. 667
[440] Travels in South Africa, p. 219.
[441] Ib., p. 471.