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 CHAPTER XIII.

ADULTERY.

I. Adultery in General.—Adultery considered as a theft.

II. Adultery in Melanesia.—Indulgence and severity of Tasmanian and Australian husbands—Adultery at New Caledonia.

III. Adultery in Black Africa.—Among the Hottentots, at the Gaboon, in middle Africa, in Abyssinia.

IV. Adultery in Polynesia.—Punishment of unauthorised adultery—The "fire-lighter" at Noukahiva.

V. Adultery in Savage America.—Among the Esquimaux—Special penalty among the Redskins—Obscene retaliation.

VI. Adultery in Barbarous America.—Among the Pipiles in Yucatan, in Mexico, in Peru, in Guatemala.

VII. Adultery among the Mongol Races and in Malaya.—Among the nomad Tartars, in Thibet, in China, in Japan, in Malaya.

VIII. Adultery among the Egyptians, the Berbers, and the Semites.—Penalty of adultery in ancient Egypt; among the Hebrews, the Arabs, and in Kabyle.

IX. Adultery in Persia and India.—Penalty of adultery in Persia—Adultery in the Code of Manu—Fraternal and authorised adultery—The obligation of a double vengeance.

X. Adultery in the Greco-Roman World.—Legal adultery according to Lycurgus and Solon—Punishment of illegal adultery—Adultery in primitive Rome—Lex Julia—Legal vengeance of the father—Obscene retaliation—Laws of Antoninus, of Septimus Severus, and of Constantine.

XI. Adultery in Barbarous Europe.—Among the Tcherkesses, the Visigoths, the Francs, under Charlemagne—Singular penalties of the Middle Ages.

XII. Adultery in the Past and in the Future.