Q\0 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



tlie contrary, give to tlieir eldest son the name of 

 the fatlier of their wife, and to the other children 

 different names ; and it is said to be the same at 

 Radack. According to Don Luis, the degree of 

 consanguinity is indicated in the names, and it is to 

 be recognized by them whose son or nephew he is. 



The amicable exchange of names, a general 

 custom in Eastern Polynesia, is unknown on the 

 Carolinas, and Kadu atrfirst denied that it was cus- 

 tomary at Radack, though he himself gave us 

 examples of it in the sequel. 



Marriages are concluded without any solemni- 

 ties. The man makes a present to the father of 

 the girl whom he marries, consisting of fruits, fish, 

 and similar things. The value of this gift is ac- 

 cording to the rank of the father of the bride, for 

 marriages also take place between persons not 

 equals. If only the father, or only the mother, is 

 of the class of the chiefs, the children are ac- 

 counted to belong to this class. In the first case 

 the man and husband shows to his wife, and his 

 children by her, all the exterior demonstra- 

 tions of respect due to their rank. A plurahty 

 of wives is allowed. Marriages are dissolved, 

 as they were concluded, without any cere- 

 mony. The husband sends his wife back to 

 her father. The husbands also cohabit with their 

 wives when they are pregnant, but not when they 

 have a child at the breast. The latter is only cus- 

 tomary at Radack ; the formei", contrary to Wil- 



