RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Burchell, Travels in the interior of Africa. CUL-DAR85.A79. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1
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Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 374, n18.
A79
Burchell II. p. 59
woman has choice. when not betrothed during infancy
Reference:
Burchell, William John. 1822-1824. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. [signed][Darwin Library-Down] vol. 2, p. 59: "When it happens, which is not often the case, that a girl has grown up to womanhood without having previously been betrothed, her lover must gain her own approbation, as well as that of the parents; and on this occasion his attentions are received with an affectation of great alarm and disinclination on her part, and with some squabbling on the part of her friends."
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