[261] Cf. custom among the Muskoks (Ratzel, ii. 125. See also im Thurn, p. 221; Westermarck, p. 18).
[262] Wallace, p. 346.
[263] Westermarck puts the disparity of years at from five to six among natives of Brazil (op. cit. p. 137; Spix and Martius, ii. 248).
[264] This invariably takes place in the forest, for no intimacy, even between husband and wife, is ever permitted in the publicity of the house. According to Westermarck a similar custom prevailed in Fiji (op. cit. pp. 151-2), but this is denied by Thomson, The Fijians, p. 202.
[265] im Thurn, pp. 186, 221.
[266] As De Morgan remarked of a somewhat similar practice among the Sakai of Perak, this is a form of marriage by purchase “modified by the smallness of the price paid … a purely formal substitute” (Bulletin de la Société Normande de Géographie, vii. 422; Skeat and Blagden, ii. 60-61).
[267] Or potacea, a nut of bitter taste the size of an acorn.
[268] See von Martius, i. 113. For similar instances cf. Westermarck, p. 151.
[269] This confirms the account given by Wallace, p. 346; von Martius, i. 600.
[270] See for similar etiquette, Alcedo-Thompson, Dictionary of America and the West Indies, i. 416; E.R. Smith, The Aurocanians, p. 215; Westermarck, pp. 383-4.