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14. The suckling period would appear to last nearer three than 

 two years on the average. A few examples may be given. Ewe- 

 speaking people, two or three years ; ^ Yoruba-speaking people, 

 three years ; ^ the Tenda, two and a half to three years ; ^ in 

 Liberia, three or four years ; * the Kagero, two to three and 

 sometimes five years ; ^ the Hausa, two years ; « the Bushongo, 

 two years ; ' in the Congo Basin, at least two years on the 

 average ; ^ the Mangbetu, a year and a half or longer ; » in 

 West Africa, on the average two to three years ; ^^ the Mayombe, 

 two years or longer ; " in Uganda, at least two years ; 12 the 

 Nandi, two years ; ^^ the Kuku, three years ; i* the Wamakonde, 

 Wakaua, and Wamuera, three years ; ^^ the Baganda, three years ; ^^ 

 the Wadschagga, two years : ^^ the Wanjamuesi, two to three 

 years; ^^ the Wazaramo, two to three years ; 1^ the Baronga, 

 three years ; 20 in the Madi district of Central Africa, three years ; 21 

 in South Africa, two years, according to Lichtenstein,22 frequently 

 until three years, according to Kidd.23 



15. There is httle or no evidence of any postponement of 

 marriage among girls. The facts with regard to men will be 

 given later. According to Denham and Clapperton, girls in Bornu 

 ' rarely marry until they are fourteen or fifteen ; often not so 

 young '.24 Among the Bangala, girls marry at the age of sixteen 

 to eighteen.25 ' In the primitive Bantu tribe every girl gets 

 married, some, however, sooner than others.' 26 The average age 

 at marriage among girls south of Lake Nyassa is fifteen.27 ' For 

 the whole of the Bantu tribes south of tho Limpopo the average 

 [age at marriage for girls] would probably be between fifteen and 

 sixteen.' 28 



16. Throughout the negroid and Bantu races of Africa sexual 



» Ellis, Ewe-Speaking Peoples, p. 206. ^ ^llig, Yoruba-Speakiug Peoples, p. 185 



» Delacour, Rev. d'Eth., 1912, p. 45. * Buttikoffer, Inter. Arch. Eth., vol. i, p. 82. 



» Tremeame, J. A. I., vol. xlii, p. 174. « Tremeame, Hausa Superstitions 



and Customs, p. 93. ' Torday and Joyce, Ann. Mu^. Congo Beige, ser. 3 



vol. ii, p. 112. 8 Cureau, loc. cit., p. 180. » Overbergh, Coll. Mon. 



Eth., No. 3, p. 296. »» Harris, Mem. Anth. Soc, vol. ii, p. 68. " Over- 



bergh and Jonghe, Coll. Mon. Eth., No. 2, p. 217. i^ Wilson and Felkin 



Uganda, vol. i, p. 187. " Hollis, Nandi, p. 65. " Plas, Coll. Mon. 



Eth., No. 6, p. 205. »' ralleborn, Nyassa- und Rowuma-Gebiet, p. 61. 



" Roscoe, Baganda, p. 55. " Gutmann, Globus, vol. xcii. " Reichard 



loc. cit., p. 257. w Burton, Central Africa, vol. i, p. 117. 2» Junod' 



Ba-Ronga, p. 19. " Felkin, Trans. Edin. Obstet. Soc, vol. ix, p I9' 



" Lichtenstein, Travels, vol. i, p. 260. " Kidd, Essential Kaffir, p. 19 



" Denham and Clapperton, Narrative, p. 319. " Weeks, J. A. I., vol. xxxix 



p. 417. « Junod, South African Tribe, p. 183. " Stannus, loc. cit ' 



p. 310. 28 xheal, Yellow- and Dark-Skinned People, p. 347. 



