Note 253 — LECTURE V. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Rite.

Musters asserts this positively of the Tehuelche and other tribes (Among the Patagonians, chap. v.); Captain Clark, whose long experience among our Western tribes constituted him an authority of the first rank, takes pains to correct the notion that among the natives wives are bought, although they are by white men (Indian Sign Language, pp. 245-6). It would be easy to multiply references to the same effect.