Missionary Life in the Southern Seas
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It is needless to remark that such a practice would have been impossible had any respect been entertained 88 Missionary Life in the Southern Seas.
for women. Not only, however, was polygamy sanctioned in the Georgian group, but concubinage on the most extensive scale was practised by the chiefs. Marriage, indeed, was attended with many ostentatious ceremonies ; but we are assured on the highest authority that neither party felt bound to the other any longer than the arrange- ment might be mutua...lly convenient and agreeable. " ^^^len the rank of the parties, " says Mr Ellis, "was equal, they often separated — the husband took other wives, and the wife other husbands ; and if the rank of the wife was in any degree superior to that of her husband, she was at liberty to take as many other husbands as she pleased, although still nominally regarded as the wife of the indi- vidual to whom she had been first married. " Female morality in these islands was at the lowest possible point, and women were treated as in all respects an unclean and inferior order of bein2;s.
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It is needless to remark that such a practice would have been impossible had any respect been entertained 88 Missionary Life in the Southern Seas.
for women. Not only, however, was polygamy sanctioned in the Georgian group, but concubinage on the most extensive scale was practised by the chiefs. Marriage, indeed, was attended with many ostentatious ceremonies ; but we are assured on the highest authority that neither party felt bound to the other any longer than the arrange- ment might be mutua...lly convenient and agreeable. " ^^^len the rank of the parties, " says Mr Ellis, "was equal, they often separated — the husband took other wives, and the wife other husbands ; and if the rank of the wife was in any degree superior to that of her husband, she was at liberty to take as many other husbands as she pleased, although still nominally regarded as the wife of the indi- vidual to whom she had been first married. " Female morality in these islands was at the lowest possible point, and women were treated as in all respects an unclean and inferior order of bein2;s.
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