Note 63 — Chapter XX · BLOOD-REVENGE AND COMPENSATION—THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH
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For the influence of wealth on the practice of composition, see Steinmetz, Studien, i. 427 sqq., and Lippert, Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit, ii. 591. Occasionally, however, composition occurs even among such a poor people as the Yahgans of Tierra del Fuego. “Sometimes,” says Mr. Bridges (in A Voice for South America, xiii. 207), “the murderer is suffered to live, but he is much beaten and hurt, and has to make many presents to the relatives of the dead.”