Note 584 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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The "youths serve the parents of the dames two or three years before they are given them for wives; and they do not give them except to those who serve them best, the men in love doing the planting, fishing, and hunting for their fathers-in-law who wish them to, and fetch them firewood from the forest; and when the fathers-in-law give over to them the dames, they go and lodge with the fathers-in-law with their wives," leaving their own kindred: Souza, Tratado Descriptivo do Brazil (1570-87): Revist. Inst. Hist., XIV, 311 ff.; cf. also Kohler, in ZVR., V, 352.