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the king may marry tis sister, as among the Incas, the Lagide 

 dynasty, etc., and even his daughter.^ Among the Land 

 Dayaks of Borneo the marriage of first cousins is said to be 

 prohibited, and a fine of a jar (which represents a considerable 

 value) imposed on second cousins who marry .^ In Sumatra, 

 Marsden says that first cousins, the children of two brothers, 

 may not marry, while the sister's son may marry the bro- 

 ther's daughter, but not vice versd.^ In the same island, it 

 is stated, upon the authority of Sir Stamford Raffles, that the 

 Battas hold intermarriage in the same tribe to be a heinous 

 crime, and that they punish the delinqiients after their ordi- 

 nary manner by cutting them uji alive, and eating them grilled 

 or raw with salt and red pepper. It is stated distinctly that 

 their reason for considering such marriages as criminal is that 

 the man and woman had ancestors in common.* 



Among the Tatar race in Asia and Europe, similar restric- 

 tions are to be found. The Ostyaks hold it a sin for two per- 

 sons of the same family name to marry, so that a man must not 

 take a wife of his own tribe. ^ The Tunguz do not marry se- 

 cond cousins; the Samoieds " avoid all degrees of consanguinity 

 in marrying to such a degi'ee, that a man never marries a girl 

 descended from the same family with himself, however distant 

 the affinity;" and the Lapps have a similar custom.^ Even 

 among the Semitic race, who, generally speaking, rival the 

 Caribs in the practice of marrying " in and in," something of 

 the kind is found ; the tribe Rebua always marries into the 

 tribe Modjar, and vice versd.'^ 



In Africa, the marriage of cousins is looked upon as illegal 

 in some tribes, and the practice of a man not marrying in his 

 own clan is found in various places.^ Munzinger, the Swiss 



1 Bowring, vol. i. p. 185. ^ g^. jo^n^ yol. i. p. 198. ^ Marsden, p. 228. 



* Letter of Eaffles to Marsden, in Dr. W. Cooke Taylor, The Nat. Hist of So- 

 ciety, vol. i. pp. 122-6. 



' Bastian, vol. iii. p. 299. 



^ Klemm, C. G., vol. iii. p. 68. Aec. of Samoiedia, in Pinkerton, vol. ii. p. 532. 

 Eicliardsou, ' Polar Eegions,' p. 345. 



7 Bastian, I. c. 



8 Casalis, p. 191. Backhouse, 'Afi-ica,' p. 182. Burton in Tr. Eth. Soc, 

 1861, p. 321. Pu Chaillu, p. 388. 



