Note 698 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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Darwin, op. cit., 599. Freedom of choice in varying degrees, often with wife-purchase, prevails among the Ashantees, Loangos, Sognos, Shulis, Mádis, Marutses, Hottentots, and Gold Coast negroes: Westermarck, op. cit., 220, 221; Ploss, op. cit., I, 54. Cf. Wake, op. cit., 214, 215; Munzinger, Ostaf. Studien, 146, 207, 324; Waitz, Anthropologie, II, 116, 117.