90% of families practiced polyandry in 2008. Among the Gilyaks of Sakhalin Island "polyandry is also practiced." Fraternal polyandry was permitted in Sri Lanka under Kandyan Marriage law, often described using the euphemism eka-ge-kama (literally "eating in one house"). Associated Polyandry, or polyandry that begins as monogamy, with the second husband entering the relationship later, is also practiced and is sometimes initiated by the wife. Polyandry was common in Sri Lanka, until it was banned by the British in 1859. Europe Reporting on the mating patterns in ancient Greece, specifically Sparta, Plutarch writes: "Thus if an older man with a young wife should take a liking to one of the well-bred young men and approve of him, he might well introduce him to her so as to fill her with noble sperm and then adopt the child as his own. Conversely a respectable man who admired someone else’s wife noted for her lovely children and her good sense, might gain the husband’s permission to sleep with her thereby planting in fruitful soil, so to speak, and producing fine children who would be linked to fine ancestors by blood and family." "According to Julius Caesar, it was customary among the ancient Britons for brothers, and sometimes for fathers and sons, to have their wives in common." "Polyandry prevailed among the Lacedaemonians according to Polybius." (Polybius vii.7.732, following Timæus) "The matrons of Rome flocked in great crowds to the Senate, begging with tears and entreaties that one woman should be married to two men." The gravestone of Allia Potestas, a woman from Perusia, describes how she lived peacefully with two lovers, one of whom immortalized her in this famous epigraphic eulogy, dating (probably) from the second century. North America Aleut people in the 19th century. During the most abusive times of the slave economy in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution, mortality was so high that women practised polyandry. Inuit Oceania Among the Kanak of New Caledonia, "every woman is the property of several husbands. It is this collection of husbands, having one wife in common, that...live together in a hut, with their common wife." Marquesans had "a society in which households were polyandrous". Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that in the New Hebrides there was a kind of convention in cases of widowhood, that two widowers shall live with one widow. South America "The Bororos ... among