Note 350 — VII. EARLY WEDDING CUSTOMS.
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Rochefort, Les Îles Antilles, 545. ‘Ils ne prenaient pour femmes légitimes que leurs cousines, qui leur étoyent aquises de droit naturel.’ Compare Burckhardt’s Notes on the Bedouins, 64: ‘A man has an exclusive right to the hand of his cousin;’ not that he was obliged to marry her, but without his consent she could marry no one else.’