ther the capture is simulated or real, the man is still
playing the masculine and aggressive part proper to the male; the woman is
still playing the feminine and defensive part proper to the female. The
universal prevalence of these phenomena is due to the fact that
manifestations of this kind, real or pretended, afford each sex the very
best opportunity for playing its proper part in courtship, and so, even
when the force is real, must always gratify a profound instinct.

It is not necessary to quote examples of marriage by capture from
the numerous and easily accessible books on the evolution of
marriage. (Sir A.B. Ellis, adopting MacLennan's standpoint,
presented a concise statement of the facts in an article on
"Survivals from Marriage by Capture," _Popular Science Monthly_,
1891, p. 207.) It may, however, be worth while to bring together
from scattered sources a few of the facts concerning the
phenomena in this group and their accompanying emotional state,
more especially as they bear on the association of love with
force, inflicted or suffered.

In New Caledonia, Foley remarks, the successful coquette goes off
with her lover into the bush. "It usually happens that, when she
is successful, she returns from her expedition, tumbled, beaten,
scratched, even bitten on the nape and shoulders, her wounds thus
bearing witness to the quadrupedal attitude she has assumed amid
the foliage." (Foley, _Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie_,
Paris, November 6, 1879.)

Of the natives of New South Wales, Turnbull remarked at the
beginning of the nineteenth century that "their mode of courtship
is not without its singularity. When a young man sees a female to
his fancy he informs her she must accompany him home; the lady
refuses; he not only enforces compliance with threats but blows;
thus the gallant, according to the custom, never fails to gain
the victory, and bears off the willing, though struggling
pugilist. The colonists for some time entertained the idea that
the women were compelled and forced away against their
inclinations; but the young ladies informed them that this mode
of gallantry was the custom, and perfectly to their taste," (J.
Turnbull, _A Voyage Round the World_, 1813, p. 98; cf. Brough
Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, 1878, vol. i, p. 81.)

As regards capture of women among Central A