Al'PE^'DiX 301 



council of ciders, and executed on the spot.-' In Africa, at 

 Bonion, tile guilty ones are bound liantl and foot, and tiieir heads 

 sniaslicd 1)\- being struck together.-' In I'ganda King M 'tesa 

 caused adultei-ers to be disnieuibered, having one limb at a time 

 cut olf and thrown to the vultures, who feasted on it before the 

 e\'es of the siirrerei's.'-'' The I'cindeer Koriaks, of the Eskimo, 

 kill at once a num and woman taken in adulter^-.'" The Pipiles 

 of Salvador punish the deliiKiuents with death.''^ In Yucatan 

 the guilty ones were stoned or piercetl with arrows and impaled 

 oi" disjointed.'- Ancient ^lexieans generally punished the oifense 

 with stoning."'^ 



Several Australian tribes punish by death penalty those who 

 reveal tribal secrets. The CJomraera order the killing of any man 

 who reveals the bull roarer to a woman, or any of the secrets of 

 the Bunan or the Kuringal. The council of Headmen of the 

 Kamilaroi tribes may decree the death of men whose conduct is 

 irregular."^ The Kamilaroi tribe of the Gwydii River kill a man 

 who has spoken to or has had any communication with his wife's 

 mother.''''' The Chepara kill men who become insane or have the 

 habit of idiotically muttering to themselves because they are 

 considered Wi/Z/c."" 



Clearly some principle of interpreting this mass of selective 

 ])henomen^ is neeessarj^ to throAV light upon the type of adapta- 

 lioii secured b}' social control. An examination of the treatment 

 that sociologists have given to selection in society indicates a state 

 of confusion upon this point. Natural selection is not always 

 distinguished from social selection,^' and the terms social selec- 



-- Dc Uoc'has, Xouvelle Caledonia, p. 262. 



-^ Denham and Clapperton, Hist. unir. t/es. Voy, T. XXVIT. p. 4.37. 



21" Speke, Voiiaye to the Sources of the Xile, p. .34.'?. 



30 Demeunier, Moeurs des different peuples, T. l^r, p. 21!). 



■■'1 Bancroft, Xative Races, II, G7;"). 



^2 Ibid., p. (574. 



••!3 Pre.xcott, riist. Conq. of Mexico, I, 20. 



34iro\vitt, op. eit., p. 343. 



3'-. Ibid., p. 20S. 



3<ilIo\vitt. p. 3.")4. 



3T F. II. (ii.ldini^s, Priiiriplcs of Sociolor/ij (Xew York, 1009). p. 32(5; 



