[472] Ib., ii, 101.
[473] History of America, l. c., iii, 217.
[474] History of America., iv, 171.
[475] A case among the Shyans was mentioned to the author, by one of their chiefs, where first cousins had married against their usages. There was no penalty for the act; but they were ridiculed so constantly by their associates that they voluntarily separated rather than face the prejudice.
[476] Iron has been smelted from the ore by a number of African tribes, including the Hottentots, as far back as our knowledge of them extends. After producing the metal by rude processes acquired from foreign sources, they have succeeded in fabricating rude implements and weapons.
[477] The Asiatic origin of the American aborigines is assumed. But it follows as a consequence of the unity of origin of mankind—another assumption, but one toward which all the facts of anthropology tend. There is a mass of evidence sustaining both conclusions of the most convincing character. Their advent in America could not have resulted from a deliberate migration; but must have been due to the accidents of the sea, and to the great ocean currents from Asia to the North-west coast.
[478] Famuli origo ab Oscis dependet, apud quo servus Famul nominabuntur, unde familia vocata.—Festus, p. 87.
[479] Amico familiam suam, id est patrimonium suum mancipio dabat.—Gaius, Inst., ii, 102.
[480] History of Rome, l. c., 1, 95.
[481] Item in potestate nostra sunt liberi nostri, quos justis nuptiis procreauimus, quod jus proprium ciuium Romanorum est: fere enim nulli alii sunt homines, qui talem in filios suos habent potestatem, qualem nos habemus.—Inst., 1, 55. Among other things they had the power of life and death—jus vitæ necisque.