This ingenious arrangement, it will be seen, has much the
same effect as the Hindoo regulations in preventing intermarriage
in the male or female line, but allowing the male and female line
to cross; the children of two brothers or two sisters cannot
marry, but the brother's child may marry the sister's. Lang,
however, mentions a furthur regulation, probably made to meet
some incidental circumstances, as, so far as it goes, it stultifies
the whole system ; A may also marry into his or her own tribe,
and the children take the name of C*

In America, the custom of marrying out of the clan is frequent
and well marked. More than twenty years ago, Sir George
Grey called attention to the division of the Australians into

1 Grey, 'Journals,' vol. ii. pp. 225-30. 2 Eyre, vol. ii. p. 330.
3 Collins, vol. i. p. 559. Klemm, C. G., vol. i. pp. 288, 319. * Lang, p. 367.
284 SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.
families, each distinguished by the name of some animal or
vegetable, which served as their crest or kobong ; the practice of
reckoning clanship from the mother ; and the prohibition of
marriage within the clan, as all bearing a striking resemblance
to similar usages found among the natives of North America.
