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compensation ; the wife may be repudiated but cannot 

 be punished. On the other hand a husband will lend 

 his wife in consideration of a present. Sometimes 

 men will enter into a sort of partnership by which they 

 hold their wives and cattle in common. The children 

 however in all cases belong to the legitimate husband. 

 This is a well recognised institution and is known 

 as Ozipanga (friendship). 1 



On the Ambon and Uliase Islands two kinds of 

 marriage exist, depending on the payment or non-pay- 

 ment of a bride-price, and the children belong either 

 to the husband's or to the wife's family accordingly. 

 The people are reported to be libidinous, and, as in 

 other parts of Indonesia, intercourse regulated strictly 

 by law is looked upon as something unnatural. Satis- 

 faction of sexual passion is deemed equally proper with 

 that of hunger and thirst. Girls have free intercourse 

 with old and young men, even before puberty, to 

 such an extent that it is a shame to have few or no 

 lovers. In this way they make acquaintance which 

 ends in marriage with one or other of their admirers. 

 It is true that an adulterer was liable forthwith to be 

 put to death, but only when caught in the act, a con- 

 tingency which probably did not very often occur. 

 Divorce did not exist until European rule forbade the 

 offended husband this summary vengeance. It is now 

 decreed by the chief on proof of adultery continual 

 disagreement ill-usage and the like. Some of the 

 population are Mohammedans: in free and unlimited 

 sexual intercourse they surpass all the rest. 2 The 



1 Kohler, citing various authorities, Zeits. vergl. Rechtsw, xiv. 304, 

 309, 298; Meyer, 56, 57, 62, 63, f 



3 Riedel, 41, 67, 71, 



