Where plural wives are taken they are generally sisters.

There is little intermarriage among other tribes.

Though it occasionally occurs it is fiercely frowned upon and all parties are made to feel uncomfortable.
Prostitution with the whites and Chinese is not uncommon, and children born of such relationship have just as good a standing as those born in wedlock.

The Indian sees no sense in punishing an innocent child for what it is in no way responsible for.

He frankly argues that only a silly fool of a white man or woman would do so cruel and idiotic a thing.
Children are invariably welcomed and made much of at birth, though it is seldom a Washoe woman has more than four or five babies.