game. A woman is surprised as she goes to get water at the
stream, or when she is on the way to or from the plantation. The
man has only got to show her she is cornered and that escape is
not easy or pleasant and she submits to be carried off. As a
general rule, they seem to accept very cheerfully these abrupt
changes in their matrimonial existence." (Sir H.H. Johnston,
_British Central Africa_, p. 412.)

Among the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula in one form of
wedding rite the bridegroom is required to run seven times around
an artificial mound decorated with flowers and the emblem of the
people's religion. In the event of the bridegroom failing to
catch the bride the marriage has to be postponed. Among the Orang
Laut, or sea-gipsies, the pursuit sometimes takes the form of a
canoe-race; the woman is given a good start and must be overtaken
before she has gone a certain distance. (W.W. Skeat, _Journal
Anthropological Institute_, Jan.-June, 1902, p. 134; Skeat and
Blagden, _Pagan Races of the Malay_, vol. ii, p. 69 et seq.,
fully discuss the ceremony around the mound.)

"Calmuck women ride better than the men. A male Calmuck on
horseback looks as if he was intoxicated, and likely to fall off
every instant, though he never loses his seat; but the women sit
with more ease, and ride with extraordinary skill. The ceremony
of marriage among the Calmucks is performed on horseback. A girl
is first mounted, who rides off at full speed. Her lover pursues,
and if he overtakes her she becomes his wife and the marriage is
consummated upon the spot, after which she returns with him to
his tent. But it sometimes happens that the woman does not wish
to marry the person by whom she is pursued, in which case she
will not suffer him to overtake her; and we were assured that no
instance occurs of a Calmuck girl being thus caught, unless she
has a partiality for her pursuer. If she dislikes him, she rides,
to use the language of English sportsmen, 'neck or nothing,'
until she has completely escaped or until the pursuer's horse is
tired out, leaving her at liberty to return, to be afterward
chased by some more favored admirer." (E.D. Clarke, _Travels_,
1810, vol. i, p. 333.)

Among the Bedouins marriage is arranged between the lover and the
girl's father, often without consulting the