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&quot; refrains from having to do with another man s wife, whom he has looked 

 upon with favor, it is generally more because he shrinks from quarreling 

 with the husband than because he regards adultery as morally wrong.&quot; 

 (43: 172; to the same effect, 69: 436.) 



Jealousy, in the male, at least, is not unknown. (66:178, 

 188; 30:97; 5:579.) Holm gives as an illustration of this a 

 man who became jealous because his young wife smiled at a 

 member of the expedition. Sometimes &quot;the injured husband 

 does not seek immediate punishment, but smothers his resent 

 ment, till he has an opportunity of revenging himself in a 

 similar manner.&quot; Nelson says that the husband &quot;rarely 

 avenges himself on the man concerned,&quot; although the affair 

 may form the excuse for an affray where there has been pre 

 vious enmity. He may beat the unfaithful wife. (45:292, 

 cf. 16.1:147.) The extreme penalty is given in a tale entitled 

 * * The Faithless Wife, in which the woman, who by stealth has 

 had illicit relations, is killed. (53:143; cf. 6:224.) Accord 

 ing to Turner, &quot;the male offender if notoriously persistent 

 in his efforts to obtain forbidden favors, is usually slain.&quot; 

 (66:178.) The wives are allowed greater liberty &quot;when they 

 have no children by their husbands,&quot; says Paul Egede. 

 (20:135.) 



It must not be understood that this sexual license is uni 

 versally indulged in. Nansen, after picturing the present-day 

 laxity which he finds, says of the married Greenlanders that 

 &quot;their every-day behavior is, as a rule, quite reputable and 

 void of offence; on that point all travellers must agree.&quot; 

 (43:172.) Even Crantz admits that, after all, &quot;their connu 

 bial intercourse is conducted with tolerable decorum.&quot; 

 (16.1:147; see also 42:420.) A saying current in East Green 

 land, that &quot;the whale, the musk-ox, and the reindeer left the 

 country because the men had too much to do with other men s 

 wives,&quot; suggests a belief that indulgence in that way is not 

 quite right. Some of the men, however, declared it was 

 &quot;because the women were jealous of their husbands.&quot; (30:100.) 



A custom found among the Eskimo everywhere is the ex 

 changing and lending of wives. (5 :579 ; 6 :225 ; 66 :189 ; 48 :60 ; 

 42 :413 ; 43 :148, 169 ; 69 :435 ; 26 :424. ) 



The exchange is often a sign of friendship. Thus, at Bering 

 Strait, where it is common for two men in different villages 

 to become bond-fellows or brothers by adoption, one of them, 



