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new favourite " fires guns, and his lawful wives rejoice with 

 him, because they regard it as adding importance to their 

 husband." ' 



Infidelity after marriage is not — at any rate nowadays — 

 regarded as a very serious offence. In the case of old men 



417. TH1-: "femba" hegins to run 



(who in Liberia, as in the rest of the world, seem, the older 

 they grow, to be more and more anxious to marry) the infidelity 

 of their wives with the young men of the town is an almost 

 admitted custom, all society being on the side of the young 

 wife and ready to laugh at the old husband. Amongst the 



1 The Rev. Mr. McCoiinell, in his account of the Kru people. 



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