Note 735 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE
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In two cases wives left their husbands for bad treatment. Occasionally the man repudiates his wife; and sometimes there are several changes or exchanges before a permanent choice is made. When, however, a union is once settled, it is not easily dissolved: Murdoch, in IX. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 411, 412. Similar freedom for both sexes prevails among the Eskimo about Bering Strait: Nelson, ibid., XVIII, Part I, 292.