Footnotes
[17]
"Collection of Voyages that Contributed to the Establishment of
the East India Company," vol. ii, part II, p. 196.
[18]
In the Maldivian isles the fathers marry their daughters at ten
and eleven years of age, because it is a great sin, say they, to suffer
them to endure the want of a husband. See Pirard, cap. 12. At Bantam, as soon
as a girl is twelve or thirteen years old, she must be married, if they
would not have her lead a debauched life. "Collection of Voyages that
Contributed to the Establishment of the East India Company," p. 348.
[19]
"Voyage to Guinea," part II, p. 192. "When the women happen to
meet with a man, they lay hold of him, and threaten to make a complaint
to their husbands if he slight their addresses. They steal into a man's
bed, and wake him; and if he refuses to comply with their desires, they
threaten to suffer themselves to be caught in flagranti.
