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POLYANDRY IN THE HIMALAYAS.
BY DR. O. R. STULPNAGEL, LAHOR. If immorality of the worst description existed in ascribed to many nations; Martini says they prejuxtaposition with the most brilliant civilization vailed in Yunnan; Garnier makes a similar observaof the Greeks, it will create surprise in uo one to tion respecting Sifan; Pallas mentions that young hear that chastity, as we understand the term, is women among the Mongols are esteemed in propora virtue scarcely known among the Mongoliang tion to the number of their love affairs; Japanese who inhabit the northern confines of India. It is ideas of morality are not very different, and the true, little is known of the Tibetans, very little in- most recent traveller in Eastern Tibet, Mr. Cooper, deed; and this is to be regretted, for they seem an makes a similar observation about the people he intelligent people--capable, no doubt, of good and came across." great things if brought under the continual influ- What has been said of the immorality of the ence of a higher life. But the little that is known Mongolians holds good in some respects of their of their state of morals does not prepossess us in neighbours the Paharis, inhabiting the Himalaya their favour. When Marco Polo, in the twelfth cen- mountains. Whether of Mongolian, Tatar, or of tury, reached that country, it had been recently mixed Mongolian and Åryan descent, these highravaged by Manku Khân, the grandson of the landers have extremely loose ideas concerning mogreat Jhangiz Khân; but though his knowledge was rality generally, and matrimony especially. Obliged limited,- for he does not pretend to have travelled by their life of seclusion to adhere to the principle over the 30,000 square miles of Tibet.--- he still had of absolute conservatism, it is by no means his attention attracted to the extraordinary immo- strange that their customs should still be primitive rality prevalent all over the country, so much so -as they may be called with a euphemistic license. that he observes that no man of that country would, But their primitiveness is not the primitiveness on any consideration, take to wife a girl who was a of innocence. The Abode of Snow' might lead maid. Colonel Yule adds to that passage learned one to expect, from a partial inspection of its note pointing out that similar corrupt practices are fertile mountain slopes, flowing rivulets, irrigated
Extracts from an article in the Indian Evangelical papers in Ind. Ant. vol. VI. pp. 251, 315; and Mr. Kirke Review, vol. V. (Oct. 1877) pp. 198ff.; conf. Dr. Muir's patrick's letter, vol. VII. p. 86.
? Yule'a Marco Polo, vol. II, pp. 83,38-40.
