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MARRIAGE AND RELATIONS OF SEXES I67
perhaps not be made for any but a pzincipal wife. The only
chief Wife whom‘ Deacon met was very much of a gramie dame,
disdainful, haughty, and imperious.
Even where a man has only two wives, passionate jealousy
may break out between them. To give an example: a certain
man married two women, but slept only with the younger one.
The elder one, being jealous,‘ was constantly quarrelling with
the younger. One day she took a knife and tried to cut the
latter with it. Eventually she was beaten off, and the younger
woman, running away, picked up a Schneider rifle. The onlookers
all laughed, thinking that she did not know how to shoot, but
in this they were mistaken. She ï¬Åred at the chief wife, but
missed her. The latter, however,", thought that the bullet had
struck her, and yelled out. Eventually it was proved to her that
she had not been shot and she was paciï¬Åed.
The children of each wife reside with her in her house, the
girls till they are of marriageable age, the boys until they.are
advanced to the men's ï¬Åre, when they sleep with their father or
in the club-house.
Premarital Relations and Adultery
Although, as we have seen, virginity is not a prerequisite of
honourable marriage, it is certainly an asset to a girl, or, rather,
perhaps to her people. Nothing, however, has been recorded of
the premarital life of women nor of their opportunities of gaining
sexexperience. After marriage the relation of a husband towards
his wife‘ resolves itself to a large extent in the attitude of the
husband towards the possibility or actuality of another man
having committed adultery with her; while on the other hand
the attitude of a woman towards her husband is based upon
the possibility or actuality of his having been unfaithful to her.
At least three types of husband are distinguished by the
natives. Two of these have already been mentioned, of which
one is that termed nï¬Åmur nen nimnmogh. Such a'man is not
physically dominating nor feared, but he has an intense
“ monogamous â€ù desire for his wife or wives ; a man without
yearnings for other women but overwhelmingly and constantly
longing for his own. He is ever obsessed by the fear that another
man, stronger than himself, may steal his wife. He cannot rest
easy if he knows that she is about alone, for he knows that he