Note 1183 — IX THE REGULATION OF NUMBERS AMONG PRIMITIVE RACES

Ratzel, loc. cit., vol. ii, p. 124. According to Man (loc. cit., p. 81) men among the Andamanese marry at from eighteen to twenty-three years of age; Portman (loc. cit., p. 369) says twenty-six. Deniker (Rev. d’Eth., p. 301) says that the Ghiliaks do not marry until between twenty and twenty-five years old. The Aetas of the province of Cagayan have to pass a bow and arrow shooting test before marriage (Blumentritt, Z. G. E., vol. xxvii, p. 65). The custom of wrestling for wives has been recorded for various races (Lubbock, Primitive Man, p. 106).