for faith to take hold upon the Saviour: through Him we tread down our foes.

After a severe fit of coughing she said, 'The toil of life will there be o'er:' and again, 'Thankful I take the cup from Thee,' &c.

"Just as the year closes, I take my pen.

" Burchell also informs us that a Bushman will take a second wife when the first one has become old, "not in years but in constitution;" and Barrow discovered the same thing (I., 276): "It appeared that it was customary for the elderly men to have two wives, one old and past child-bearing, the other young."

The preservation of the cattle constitutes the grand object of their solicitude; and with these, which are trained for the purpose, they run at an astonishing rate, leaving both wives and children to take their chances.

Theal says (213) that if a wife has no children the husband has a right to return her to her parents and if she has a marriageable sister, take her in exchange.

"If a woman speaks two words, take one and leave the other.

A curious detail of Galla courtship consists in the precautions the parents of rich youths have to take to protect them from designing poor girls and their mothers.

The woman's life is of no account if her husband chooses to destroy it, and no one ever attempts to protect or take her part under any circumstances.

Each man placed himself before his gins, and bowing forward with a shrug, the hands and arms being thrown back pointing to each gin, as if to say, Take which you please.

If a man thinks he is strong enough, he will take hold of any woman's hand and utter his yongul ngipa.

"At times," we read in Spencer and Gillen (556, 558) "the eloping couple are at once followed up and then, if caught, the woman is, if not killed on the spot, at all events treated in such a way that any further attempt at elopement on her part is not likely to take place.

Among these same Narrinyeri, says Gason, "it is considered disgraceful for a woman to take a husband who has given no other woman for her."

If possible she will creep into his camp that night or take the earliest opportunity to run away with him.

In his book on South Australia J.D. Wood says (403): "The fact that marriage does not take place between members of the same tribe, or is forbidden amongst them, does not at all include the idea that chastity is observed within the same limits.

After a fight, he says, the women "do not always follow their fugitive husbands from the field, but frequently go over, as a matter of course, to the victors, even with young children on their backs; and thus it was, probably, that after we had made the lower tribes sensible of our superiority, that the three girls followed our party, beseeching us to take them with us.

To take another instance: Westermarck (503), in his search for cases of romantic attachment and absorbing passion among savages, fancies he has come across one in Australia, for he tells us that "even the rude Australian girl sings in a strain of romantic affliction

Finding their screams and struggles in vain they quietened at length, and then Wurrunnah told them not to be afraid, he would take care of them.

It was too late to take revenge that day, but next morning the two set out for the tribe to which the girl-robber belonged.

When this is over, they have to take off whatever clothes they have on and sit naked on the ground while some of the old women throw over them handfuls of paddy and repeat a prayer that they may prove as fruitful as that grain.

"The warrior can take away any inferior man's wife at pleasure, and is thanked for so doing.

This might be a great trial to an European lover; the Dayaks, however, take the matter very philosophically.

If one was in a minor difficulty, too trivial to take to Father Payne, it was natural to consult Barthrop; and he sometimes, too, would say a word of warning to a man, if a storm seemed to be brewing.

I have spoken!" "Take him at his word, my Captain!" murmured Leclair.

" "Take, then, a simitar of the keenest, and cut me down!"