CHAPTER 11.  LAWS OF RELATIONSHIP, MARRIAGE, AND INHERITANCE.

Relationship and marriage. 
Division of families. 
Law of marriage. 
Coincident institutions amongst the north American Indians. 
Origin of family names. 
Second coincidence. 
BETROTHMENTS. 
Widows. 
Obligations of relationship. 
Difficulty of pursuing the enquiry. 
Property vested in individuals. 
Universality of this custom. 
Line of inheritance. 
Certain laws regarding food.

CHAPTER 12.  CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

Superstitious revenge of natural death. 
Murder. 
Stealing A wife. 
Breach of marriage laws. 
Implication of A MURDERER’S family in his crime. 
Ordeal and punishment for other transgressions.

CHAPTER 13.  SOCIAL CONDITION AND DOMESTIC HABITS.

Population. 
Term of life. 
Condition of old age. 
And of young women. 
Average proportion of births. 
Idiots and lunatics. 
Influence of polygamy on social habits. 
Mode of conversational intercourse. 
Consequences of jealousy. 
Dances. 
Ceremonies on meeting.

CHAPTER 14.  FOOD AND HUNTING.

Errors regarding scarcity of their food. 
Varieties of it in different latitudes. 
Causes of occasional want. 
List of edible articles. 
Implements for destroying animals. 
Contents of A native woman’s bag. 
Different methods of catching kangaroos. 
Cooking A kangaroo. 
Methods of taking and cooking fish. 
Feasting on A stranded whale. 
Killing wild dogs. 
Turtle. 
Birds. 
OPOSSUMS.
Frogs. 
Shellfish. 
Grubs, and WALLABIES. 
Edible roots and seeds. 
Mode of cooking and preparing them. 
Fungi. 
Gums.
Common rights in certain food.