through the woods, calling her child by its name, speaking to it, and giving many tokens of her tender feelings.[732] This instance gives us a good insight into a class of feelings that the general, popular mind would hardly ascribe to savages.[733] Salvado says that they make a great difference between a boy and girl, in the joy which they display at a child's birth. Not only the mothers (as we saw above), but also the fathers show great fondness for their children. Salvado blames the "déférence des pères pour les enfants." Whatever a child might do, it is never chastised. If a small boy wishes to obtain something from his parents, he cries, bites and beats them, until he succeeds in his purpose. The only punishment ever inflicted on their children is "une fâcherie plus ou moins remarquée par eux, et cela encore après leur avoir accordé tout ce qu'ils demandent." The father prepares for his son small arms and teaches him how to use them. He displays the greatest tenderness towards him and is extremely fond of him.[734] And the author gives as the reason why the aborigines would not send their children to white men for education, the parental attachment to their offspring.[735] The father disposes of his daughters in marriage.[736] [730] Salvado about the natives of Swan District, West Australia, pp. 275, 276. [731] _Ibid._, p. 275. [732] _Ibid._, p. 250. [733] _Ibid._, p. 274. [734] _Ibid._, p. 276. [735] _Ibid._, pp. 276, 277. [736] _Ibid._, p. 278. Among the natives of King George Sound the mothers display a great love for their children, often crying after the death of one of them.[737] [737] Browne, _loc. cit._, p. 450. About the same tribes it is recorded: "Of their children they appear to be fond, and rarely chastise them; but their treatment of the women is not always gentle."[738] Here the difference between the usual good treatment that children uniformly enjoy from their parents, and the unsettled character of marital treatment is clearly expressed. [738] Scott Nind, _loc. cit._, p. 37.