[775] So in Tahiti, the Sandwich Islands, the Marianne and Caroline groups, the Indian Archipelago, in Africa, and elsewhere; see the examples of free divorce at the option of either party and the authorities already mentioned above. _Cf._ LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 287. [776] BANCROFT, _Native Races_, I, 277. [777] _Ibid._, 412; MORGAN, _Ancient Society_, 454 (Iroquois); LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 288. [778] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 527: _ap._ SCHOOLCRAFT, _Indian Tribes_, IV, 223 ff. [779] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 527: _ap._ SCHOOLCRAFT, _Indian Tribes_, IV, 214. But it appears to be a point of honor for the abandoned husband to avenge himself by killing someone: BANCROFT, _op. cit._, I, 512; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 288. [780] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 527. [781] BANCROFT, _op. cit._, II, 672; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 288. [782] So among the Santals (Dakotas): LETOURNEAU, _loc. cit._ [783] For this class of peoples see POST, _Familienrecht_, 250, 254-58; _idem_, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 436-39; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 526-29. [784] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 527, 528: _ap._ COLQUHOUN, _Amongst the Shans_, 295. [785] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 528: _ap._ MACDONALD, _Africana_, I, 140. [786] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 528, 529; GLASSON, _Le mariage civil et le divorce_, 152 ff.; UNGER, _Die Ehe_, 60; PLUTARCH'S _Lives_ (London, 1890), Solon, 68. Primitively the Grecian wife had little liberty in this regard; even later it was always difficult to enforce her right of divorce; and repudiation was regarded as a disgrace: LECKY, _History of European Morals_, II, 287, 289; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 304. [787] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 528, 529; WAITZ, _Anthropologie_, II, 389; POST, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_, I, 436. But in case of the Kafirs, the chief decides whether the woman has just cause: POST, _op. cit._, 438. [788] "Wird die Frau misshandelt oder vernachlässigt, so kann sie die Lösung der Ehe verlangen; dies ist allgemeines Negerrecht."--KOHLER, "Ueber das Negerrecht, namentlich in Kamerun," _ZVR._, XI, 441, 442. See also HENRICI, "Das Recht der Epheneger," _ibid._, 135; BASTIAN, _Rechtsverhältnisse_, 179 (Gold Coast). [789] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 528, 529: _ap._ AMÍR' ALÍ, _Personal Law of the Mahommedans_ (London, 1880), chaps. xii ff.