 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 586 pages
...married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is inclined, to take another husband ; and the men, on...same principle, marry wherever they happen to reside. All th* before-mentioned provinces, that is to say, Kashcar, Kotan, Peyn, and as far as the desert... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is inclined, to take another husband; and the men, on...same principle, marry wherever they happen to reside. All the before-mentioned provinces, that is to say, Kashcar, Kotan, Peyn, and as far as the desert... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 544 pages
...married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is inclined, to take another husband; and the men, on...same principle, marry wherever they happen to reside. All the before-mentioned provinces, that is to say, Kashcar, Kotan, Peyn, and as far as the desert... | |
 | Ellsworth Huntington - Asia, Central - 1907 - 498 pages
...calls it, have the peculiar custom "that if a married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is so inclined,...many men coming to Keriya for a short time become enamored of the women here, and remain permanently, taking new wives and abandoning their former wives... | |
 | Ellsworth Huntington - Asia, Central - 1907 - 500 pages
...calls it, have the peculiar custom "that if a married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is so inclined,...another husband; and the men, on the same principle, many wherever they happen to resWe." The quotation from my notes runs aa follows: "The women of the... | |
 | Henri Cordier, Marco Polo - Science - 1920 - 182 pages
...before I had read the comments of the ancient travellers. Marco Polo says that the people of Pein, on Pima, as he also calls it, have the peculiar custom...loose character. It is said that many men coming to Kenya for a short time become enamouned of the women here, and remain permanently, taking new wives... | |
 | Marco Polo - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 324 pages
...married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is inclined, to take another husband; and the men, on...same principle, marry wherever they happen to reside. All the before-mentioned provinces, that is to say, Kashcar, Kotan, Peyn, and as far as the desert... | |
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They have this custom, that if a married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is inclined, to take another husband; and the men, on the same principle, marry wherever they happen to reside. 