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The origin and development of the moral ideas

Note 83 — Chapter XXIV · HOSPITALITY

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Powers, op. cit. p. 153. The same privilege as “the perfect stranger” possesses among the Pomo, was granted by the tribes of the Niger Delta to the Ibo girl who was destined to be offered as a sacrifice. She “was allowed to claim any piece of cloth or any ornament she set her eyes upon, and the native to whom it belonged was obliged to present it to her” (Comte de Cardi, ‘Ju-ju Laws and Customs,’ in Jour. Anthr. Inst. xxix. 54).

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