Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula . &rf£t£^>1 1 4\ -,v*f^9i>?lS. VtilNt; SAKAI ( Engaged to be married al the next Irah fruit season—the usual marrying time of the Sakai,Lhi Slim, reral<. Vol. ri. A 61. SAKAI OF PERAK 6i called an example of marriage by purchase, but thatthe fact of purchase is to some extent modified bythe smallness of the price paid, and that all thatactually remains is a purely formal substitute formarriage by purchase, which was once a wide-spreadcustom in Southern Asia. Continuing, De Morganadds that the form of marriage was extremelysimple. The bride and
Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula . &rf£t£^>1 1 4\ -,v*f^9i>?lS. VtilNt; SAKAI ( Engaged to be married al the next Irah fruit season—the usual marrying time of the Sakai,Lhi Slim, reral<. Vol. ri. A 61. SAKAI OF PERAK 6i called an example of marriage by purchase, but thatthe fact of purchase is to some extent modified bythe smallness of the price paid, and that all thatactually remains is a purely formal substitute formarriage by purchase, which was once a wide-spreadcustom in Southern Asia. Continuing, De Morganadds that the form of marriage was extremelysimple. The bride and bridegroom repaired, accom-panied by their relatives, to the house of their tribalchief, where the latter in converse with the twofamilies inquired into the prospects of the jointmanage, after which, if no obstacle presented itself, heformally declared them married, and all was newly married pair were required to build a hutand form a clearing, and in the interval that must elapsebefore it could bring them in a return, they lived atthe charge of their fami
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