The Hos are good husbands and wives, and although they have no terms in their own language to express the higher emotions, “they feel them all the same.”[2081] The missionary Jellinghaus found tokens of affectionate love between married people among the Munda Kols, Mr. Fawcett among the Savaras, Sir Spenser St. John among the Sea Dyaks, Mr. Man among the Andamanese.[2082] In New Caledonia, says M. Moncelon, “l’amour existe, et j’ai vu des suicides par amour.”[2083] In Samoa, stories of affectionate love between husband and wife are preserved in song.[2084] In Tonga, according to Mariner, most of the women were much attached to their husbands;[2085] and in Fiji, says Dr. Seemann, “even widowers, in the depth of their grief, have frequently terminated their existence, when deprived of a dearly beloved wife.”[2086] In several of the Australian tribes, married people are often much attached to each other, and continue to be so even when they grow old.[2087] Concerning the aborigines of Victoria, Daniel Bunce says it is an error to suppose that there exists no settled love or lasting affection between the sexes; among the Narrinyeri, Mr. Taplin has known as well-matched and loving couples as he has among Europeans; and, according to Mr. Bonney, husband and wife among the natives of the River Darling, rarely quarrel, and “they show much affection for each other in their own way.”[2088] Among the Eskimo of the north-east coast of North America, visited by Lyon, “young couples are frequently seen rubbing noses, their favourite mark of affection, with an air of tenderness.”[2089] The Tacullies, as Harman informs us, are remarkably fond of their wives.[2090] And Mr. Catlin goes even so far as to deny that the North American Indians are “in the least behind us in conjugal, in filial, and in paternal affection,”[2091]—a statement with which Mr. Morgan does not agree. Mr. Brett asserts that, among the natives of Guiana, instances of conjugal attachment are very frequent.[2092] Azara and Mantegazza found tokens of it among some other South American tribes;[2093] and the rude Fuegians are said to “show a good deal of affection for their wives.”[2094] It is, indeed, impossible to believe that there ever was a time when conjugal affection was entirely wanting in the human race. Though originally of far less intensity than parental love, especially on the mother’s side, as being of less importance for the existence of the species, yet it seems, in its most primitive form, to have been as old as marriage itself. It must be a certain degree of affection that induces the male to defend the female during her period of pregnancy; but often it is the joint care of the offspring, more than anything else, that makes the married couple attached to each other. With reference to the Dacotahs, Mr. Prescott remarks that “as children increase, the parents appear to be more affectionate.”[2095]