Note 752 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE

Bonwick, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, 73, 74. The Tasmanian woman, he adds, even when divorced "was by no means free, as the tribe exercised jurisdiction" in her "affairs and the disposal of her person. She soon came under bondage again to another man, though perhaps to a younger than her first affianced one; as the young fellows were in most instances supplied with their first partners from the overflowing establishments of their seniors, or by the grant of a cast-off bit of property."