Note 585 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

During this courting season, among the small tribes on the Amazon, the lover enjoys the so-called "bosom-right;" and this custom, which appears to be identical in character with that of "bundling" and the "proof-night," appears elsewhere in America and in other parts of the world: Martius, Rechtszustande, 56; ibid., Ethnographie, I, 108; cf. Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 321, 322.