From the foregoing account it appears that among these tribes no sooner has a girl attained to womanhood than she is expected and indeed required to give proof of her newly acquired powers by cohabiting with a man, whether her husband or another.

Whether they cohabit one man to one woman, or promiscuously, I know not; but they do live in companies, twenty or thirty men, women, and children together.

The effect of polyandry is thus referred to by Colonel King (23): "A Toda woman often has three or four husbands, who are all brothers, and with each of whom she cohabits a month at a time.