AFRIQUE

In Africa, the marriage of cousins is looked upon as illégal in some tribes, and the practice of a man uot marrying in his own clan is found in varions places. (Casalis, p. 1 91 . Backhouse^ Africa, p. 321. Duchaillu, p. 388.) Thecustom in Aqua* pim is especially suggestive; two familles who hâve fetishes of the same name consider themselves related and do not intermarry^ Munzinger the Swiss traveller in Ëast Africa, suggests Christian influence as having operated in this direction. The Béni Amer, north of Abyssinia, foUow the rules of Islam, cousins often marrying ; the Beit, Bidel and the Allabje^ on the other hand, mindful

I . Cette coutume est une antique tradition du culte des ancêtres. Les fétiches furent d^abord les images des ancêtres comme les Theraphim de Laban. Les fétiches du même nom indiquent les descendants des mêmes ancêtres qui ne peuvent sMnir entre eux, parce que les habitants d^Aquapim descendent de tribus diverses d^origine qui s^unirent en société.

oftheir Christian ori^in, observe blood relationship to seven degree. (Tylor's early history of nian kind, p. 284.)

SAMOYEDES ET LAPONS.

The Samoiedes avoid ail defi;ree of consanguinity in marrying to such a degree that a man never maigries a girl descended from the same family with himself, however distant affînity, and the Lapps hâve a similar custom. Even among the Semitic race, who, generally speaking, rival the Garibs in practiceof marrying *' in and in, " something of the kind is found; the tribe Rebua always marries into the tribe Modjar, and vice versa. (Tylor's early history ofroarùcind, p. 284.)