[244] Fraser’s _Journey_, vol. ii. pp. 372-375. [245] A. Vambéry, _Voy. d’un faux Derviche_, p. 295. [246] Dalton, _Ethn. Bengal_, p. 319. [247] _Id._, _ibid._ p. 86. [248] Buchanan, _Journey from Madras_, vol. ii. p. 178. [249] Earle, _Residence in New Zealand_, p. 244. [250] Yate, _New Zealand_, p. 96. [251] Moerenhout, _Voy. aux îles du Grand Océan_, t. ii. p. 68. [252] Burckhardt, _Notes_, vol. i. p. 263. [253] Burckhardt, _Notes_, vol. i. p. 107. [254] Démeunier, _Esprit des Différents Peuples_, t. I^{er.} p. 296. [255] Plutarch, _Life of Lycurgus_. [256] Apuleius, _Golden Ass_, iv. [257] Plutarch, _Romulus_.--Ovid, _Fastes_, ii. [258] Lucan, ii.--Virgil, _Æneid_, iv. [259] Louis Moser, _The Caucasus and its People_, p. 31. [260] Wake, _Evolution of Morality_, vol. i. p. 401. [261] Lord Kames, _Sketches of the Hist. of Man_, book i., sec. 6. [262] _Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus_ (1555), lib. xiv. cap. 2. [263] La Villemarqué, _Barzas Breis_. [264] _Voyage de l’Astrolabe._ [265] Moerenhout, _Voy. aux îles_, t. ii. p. 62. [266] Démeunier, t. I^{er.} p. 191. CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE AND BY SERVITUDE. I. _The Power of Parents._--The hypothesis of a primitive matriarchate--Maternal filiation and the condition of the woman--Parental right of property in children--Conjugal sales of little girls in Africa, Polynesia, America, and India. II. _Marriage by Servitude._--Labour and exchange value--Marriage by servitude with the Redskins, in Central America, in India, with the Hebrews--Influence of marriage by servitude on the condition of the woman. III. _Marriage by Purchase._--With the Hottentots and the Kaffirs in Middle Africa, in Polynesia, in America, with the Mongols in China, with the aborigines of India, with the Berbers, the Hindoos in Malasia, and in Greco-Roman antiquity--Dowry marriage--Moral signification of marriage by purchase. I. _The Power of Parents._