 | 1869 - 798 pages
...peculiar shrill cries of wild excitement. At a given signal from the native who had led out the couple, the bride darted suddenly into the first polog, and...curtains to prevent his passage, and applying the willow switches unmercifully to a very susceptible part of his body, as he stooped to raise them. The... | |
 | 1869 - 810 pages
...peculiar shrill cries of wild excitement. At a given signal from the native who had led out the couple, the bride darted suddenly into the first polog, and...curtains to prevent his passage, and applying the willow switches unmercifully to a very susceptible part of his body, as he stooped to raise them. The... | |
 | George Kennan - 1870 - 446 pages
...peculiar shrill cries of wild excitement. At a given signal from the native who had led out the couple, the bride darted suddenly into the first polog, and...curtains to prevent his passage, and applying the willow and alder switches unmercifully to a very susceptible part of his body as he stooped to raise... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 328 pages
...suddenly darted into the nearest polog, and began a rapid flight from polog to polog round the tent. The bridegroom instantly followed in hot pursuit ; but the women who were stationed at the various pologs " threw every impediment in his way — tripping up his unwary feet, holding... | |
 | 1875 - 642 pages
...custom is found among the Koraks of North-Eastern Asia. Here the ceremony takes place within a large tent containing numerous separate compartments (pologs)...curtains to prevent his passage, and applying the willow and alder switches unmercifully to a very susceptible part of his body as he stooped to raise... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - 1879 - 336 pages
...peculiar shrill cries of wild excitement. At a given signal from the native who had led out the couple, the bride darted suddenly into the first polog, and...curtains to prevent his passage, and applying the willow and alder switches unmercifully to a very susceptible part of his body as he stooped to raise... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - 1886 - 434 pages
...the forest." — Trans. Ethn. Sue., Vol. III., p. 81. 184 PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE. pediment in the man's way, " tripping up his unwary feet, holding down the curtains to prevent his passage, and applying willow and alder switches unmercifully to a very susceptiMe part of his body " as he stoops to raise... | |
 | 1887 - 942 pages
...starts off through the compartments, followed by her wooer, while the women of the encampment throw every possible impediment in his way, " tripping up...the curtains to prevent his passage, and applying willow and alder switches unmercifully as he stoops to raise them." As with the maiden on the horse,... | |
 | Charles Staniland Wake - 1888 - 318 pages
...Koraks of North* 184 MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE. Eastern Asia. Here the ceremony takes place within a large tent containing numerous separate compartments (pologs),...curtains to prevent his passage, and applying the willow and alder switches unmercifully to a very susceptible part of his body as he stooped to raise... | |
 | 1888 - 632 pages
...compartments, followed by her wooer, while the women of the encampment throw every possible impediment hi his way, "tripping up his unwary feet, holding down...the curtains to prevent his passage, and applying willow and alder switches unmercifully as he stoops to raise "them." As with the maiden on the horse,... | |
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At a given signal from the native who had led out the couple, the bride darted suddenly into the first polog, and began a rapid flight around the tent, raising the curtains between the pologs successively, and passing under. The bridegroom instantly followed... 
