[479] _Ibid._, 32; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 114; _Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle_, II, 205. [480] ADAM, _Du parler des hommes_, 2 ff.; MARTIUS, _Rechtszustande_, 55; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 114; MCLENNAN, _op. cit._, I, 33, 34; WESTERMARCK, _Human Marriage_, 383; WAITZ, _Anthropologie_, III, 355; DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Raubehe_, 82. But see CRAWLEY, _Mystic Rose_, 46-48, who believes the difference of language is one of the results of the fear of evil which causes sex-segregation and sexual taboo. [481] MARTIUS, _Ethnologie_, I, 106, 107; _idem, Rechtszustande_, 55, 62. [482] HELLWALD, _Die mensch. Familie_, 188. The practice of capturing or forcibly abducting women, though rare, exists among the Hottentots and elsewhere in Africa.[483] It prevails throughout all Melanesia, where abduction is described as the "primitive means of procuring wives or rather slaves, absolutely at the pleasure of the ravisher."[484] It has existed in Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, New Guinea, among the Fiji Islanders, throughout the Indian Archipelago, and to a very limited extent in Australia.[485] For the Finnish-Ugrian and Turco-Tartaric peoples proofs of the present or former existence of the practice have been collected.[486] [483] LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 113, 114; WESTERMARCK, op. cit., 384; POST, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 324 ff. [484] LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 111. [485] DARGUN, _op. cit._, 81; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 385; FISON AND HOWITT, _Kamilaroi and Kurnai_, 343 ff.; MATHEWS, "Australian Aborigines," _Jour. Roy. Soc., N. S. Wales_, XXIII, 407; SMYTH, _Aborigines of Victoria_, II, 316; SPENCER AND GILLEN, _Native Tribes of Cent. Australia_, 102-5, 554-56. [486] See especially SCHROEDER, _Hochzeitsbräuche_; BUCH, _Die Wotjäken_, 49 ff.; KOHLER, "Studien," _ZVR_., V, 334 ff.; and his "Frauenwerbung und Frauenraub im finnischen Heldenepos," _ibid._, VI, 277 ff.