_Vei-ndauveni._--Let us now consider the relations between females who would have been concubitants had they been of opposite sexes. They are called _vei-ndauveni_, which, according to our phraseology, would mean cousin and sister-in-law, for in the concubitant system these terms are one and the same thing. As in the case of the concubitants, the _vei-ndauveni_ is curiously stretched to cover the case of a man marrying a stranger woman unrelated to him. She becomes _vei-ndauveni_ to his sister as a logical deduction from the fiction that she is concubitant with him, and as the children of _vei-ndauveni_ must be concubitant, so her children and her sister-in-law's children are concubitants.

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