Show tariff of in tho earliest times of purchase so a woman was bartered for useful goods or tor services rendered to her father in this latter way jacob purchased rachel and her sister leah this was a beana marriage where a man as in genesis leaves hia father and his mother and cleaves unto bis wife and they become one flesh or kin tho comans womans wo mans tho arico of a bride in british columbia and vancouver island varies from 20 to 40 worth of articles in oregon an indian gives for her horses blankets or buffalo robes in california shell money or corsoe in africa cattle A poor damara will sell a daughter for a cow A richer kaffir expects from throe to 80 with tho banyai if nothing bo given her family claim her children in uganda where no marriage recently existed she may bo obtained for half a dozen needle or a coat or a pair of shoes an ordinary price is a box of percussion caps in other parts a goat or a cou buckskins will buy a girl passing to asia we find her arico is sometimes to CO rubles or at others a cartload of wood or hay A princena princesa prin cesa may bo purchased for rubles in a woman can bo obtained for a few pounds of butter or chero a rich man gives 20 small oxen a poor man may succeed with a pig in fiji her equivalent is a whales tooth or a musket these and similar prices elsewhere are eloquent testimony to tho little value a savage sets on his wife charms vanish with her girlhood sho is usually married whilo a child and through her cruel slavery and bitter lifo sho often becomes old and repulsive at 25 westminster review |