250 Incest. 



tinct, sanctioning the marriage of a man with his 

 younger sister, though they held it revolting to 

 many an elder sister or aunt. The same prac 

 tice is found in the Sandwich Islands, where the 

 king sometimes married his sister, as among the 

 Peruvians the Incas always did. According to 

 Hearne, the Chippewayans frequently espoused 

 their own daughters, giving them over, after some 

 time, to their sons. Other savages have certain 

 bars to marriage, some of them corresponding 

 almost to our table of prohibited degrees. But 

 the field of choice for wiving is exceedingly va 

 ried. Where a tribe is at once exogamous and 

 cndogamous, and has at the same time no sense 

 of consanguinity, there is no limit whatever; so 

 that a man s wife may be a remote foreigner or 

 his own sister, or if he be polygamous, both may 

 be his wives. If the tribe be purely exogamous, 

 he may marry anyone outside it, except in that 

 restricted exogamy which limits him to his own 

 confederacy. And if the tribe be purely endog- 

 amous, his choice is narrowed to its own female 

 members, including or excluding, according as a 

 sense of blood-relationship is developed or not, 

 his own immediate kin and affinity. 



There are other peculiar features of family life 

 among the uncivilized, which could not be omit- 



