Note 54 — Chapter I · Marriage Laws and Customs.
Reading edition
Ringrose, “Marriage and Divorce Laws,” p. 9.
If the investigation of Edward J. Wood, in his book, “Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries,” is accurate, the Eimauk, of Caubul, “lend their wives to their guests”; “the Candyans, of the lower and middle classes universally practice polygamy and also lend their wives to their guests”; “the Keiaz, of the Paropamisan mountains of India, lend their wives, as do also the people of Kamul”; the “Mpongmes, an African tribe, lend their wives,” and “the Koryaks, who are polyandrous, and the Chukchi, in the north-east of Siberia, lend out their wives, as do also the Aimaks.”
II. “The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries,” pp. 97, 146, 151, 167, 237.