Note 752 — Chapter VII · [234] PARENTS AND CHILDREN

Curr states it to vary from eight to fourteen, at various places: Recollections, pp. 50, 129, A.R., i. p. 107; Meyer in Woods, p. 190, states it to be from ten to twelve; Schürmann in Woods, p. 222, at arriving at puberty; Fraser, p. 2, at a very young age; Eyre, ii. p. 319, at about twelve years of age; Br. Smyth, i. p. 77, very early; Spencer and Gillen at from fourteen to fifteen years of age (Nat. Tr., p. 92 and Nor. Tr., p. 134); Withnell, p. 8, at about twelve years of age; Parkhouse, A.A.A.S., vi. p. 641, at arriving at puberty; Grey, ii. pp. 229, 231, very early.