(_d_) "If the suitor among the Battas is too poor to pay the price for a wife, he may contract the _ambil anak_ marriage, which obliges him to become a member of the family of the bride's parents and live with them in the same dwelling: he is required to work for his father-in-law, and attend to the ordinary agricultural labour."--_Social History of the Races of Mankind_, A. Featherman. (_e_) "New couples mostly start life in the young wife's home, the lad working for her parents, and as families come, the elder pairs are established in houses of their own."--_Burmah_, M. and B. Ferrars. [159] Cf. _A Naturalist in North Celebes_, S. I. Hickson, p. 198.--"In the Sangir Islands the only persons who are free from the matriarchal system are the sons of the rajahs, who do as they please about following their wives." P. 286--"Among the Dyaks of Sarawak we find ... that in some cases the man does not follow the woman; but if he is of higher rank, or the only support of aged parents, the woman is obliged to come and live in his family." [160] (_a_) "A man may readily obtain a divorce without any better reason than that he has fixed his heart on another woman."--"Customs of the Minahassers," Hickson's _North Celebes_, p. 281. (_b_) "Divorces are very common; one can scarcely meet with a middle-aged Dyak who has not had two and often three or more wives. Repudiation takes place for the slightest cause--personal dislike or disappointments, a sudden quarrel, bad dreams, discontent with the partner's powers of industry or labour, in fact, any excuse. In fact, marriage is a business of partnership for the purpose of having children, dividing labour, and by means of their offspring providing for old age. It is therefore entered into and dissolved almost at pleasure. The causes are innumerable, but incompatibility of temper is perhaps the most common; when they are tired of each other they do not say so, but put the fault upon an unfavourable dream or a bad omen--either of which is allowed to be a legitimate cause for separation."--St. John. [161] Side by side with this state of things, which is practically one of free love, a licensed immorality exists among the natives, and there are several brothels or houses of assignation in the village of M[=u]s, population 530! [162] Cf. _A Naturalist in North Celebes_, S. I. Hickson, p. 197.--"The rajah of Morong, in the Talant Islands, told me, that in case of a divorce the children go 'where they do not cry.'" P. 288--"In some cases, the children, when the parents are divorced, can choose the family to which they will afterwards belong." [163] Yassan of Kachal possessed three houses and three wives. Offandi, headman of M[=u]s, had two wives, and knew of others similarly situated. "I got two wives now. I no want more than two wives one time; plenty trouble. Before I have other wives; when young, I go with ----."