Note 439 — Chapter XV · - GENTES IN OTHER TRIBES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
Reading edition
Travels in South Africa, Appletons’ ed., ch. 30, p. 660.—“When a young man takes a liking for a girl of another village, and the parents have no objection to the match, he is obliged to come and live at their village. He has to perform certain services for the mother-in-law.... If he becomes tired of living in this state of vassalage, and wishes to return to his own family, he is obliged to leave all his children behind—they belong to his wife.”—Ib., p. 667