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Title: In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t this is the mode adopted. Supposing thatone married man had two brothers and several children,the first child belongs to him, the second to his firstbrother, and the third to his second brother, while thefourth would be again the first mans child. The rules of courtship are not very strict in Tibet, yetintercourse with girls is looked upon as illegal, and incertain cases not only are the parties, if discovered, madeto suffer shame, but certain fines are inflicted on theman, the most severe of all being that he must presentthe young lady with a dress and ornaments. In the caseof gentle-folks the question is generally solved to thesatisfaction of everybody by the man marrying the wom-an, and by his gracefully presenting veils of friendship 66 PUNISHMENTS FOR INFIDELITY to all her relations and friends, together with articles offood; but if by mischance she should be placed in anawkward position before the eyes of the world, and theman will not hear of a matrimonial union, then efforts
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THE LADY IN QUESTION are made to prevent the birth of the child alive. Ifthese are not successful, the mother must be maintaineduntil after the childs birth. In such cases the illegiti-mate child remains the mans, and suffers forever theusual indignities of illegitimacy. II.—F IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND Sixteen in the case of women, and eighteen or nine-teen in that of men, is regarded as the marriageable age.Motherhood continues until a fairly advanced age, and Ihave seen a woman of forty with a baby only a fewmonths old. But, as a rule, Tibetan women lose theirfreshness while still quite young; and no doubt theircustom of polyandry not only contributes to destroytheir looks but also is the chief cause that limits thepopulation of Tibet. The Lamas are supposed to live in celibacy, but theydo not always keep to their oath, tempted, no doubt, bythe fact that they themselves invariably go unpunished.If, on the other hand, the culprit be a layman, he has topay compensation according to his

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