4 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



practically the same as previously described by me in. the initiation 

 ceremonies of other ti'ibes. The messenger remained with the 

 tribe to which he had been sent until they were ready to 

 accomjDany him to the appointed meeting place. On getting 

 near the general camp, all the men painted their bodies with 

 stripes and patches and coloured clays and the novices were 

 painted red. On arriving in sight of the camp all their baggage 

 was laid down, and the women and aged people remained there 

 for the present. The men then formed into single tile, each man 

 having a small green bough in his right hand, and a bundle of 

 spears in his left, the upper ends of whicli pointed outwards over 

 his left shoulder.^ The messenger was in the lead, or close to 

 it, and carried the sacred bullroarer in his belt, wrapped carefully 

 in a piece of the skin of some animal. 



When tlie strangers reach the ring {!^floradooia?i) they enter it 

 through the opening in the embankment and march round until 

 they are all within it, and then call out the names of remarkable 

 mountains, water-holes, and camping places in their country. 

 They also shout out the names of the wattle trees several times. 

 The local mob, and all the men who had arrived in previous 

 contingents, are sitting round the ring, having assembled there 

 when they heard the strangers ajoproaching. They also now enter 

 the circle, and jump about, and in turn call out the names of 

 wattle trees, mountains, etc., in their several districts. Everyone 

 then comes out of the circle, and the men of the newly arrived 

 mob go and assist their women to put up their quarters on the 

 side of the camp facing their own country. All the men then 

 proceed along the path to the farther ring, the hosts being in the 

 lead. They show the strangers Dhurramoolun and the other 

 images, the marked trees, and everything on the sacred ground, 

 at all of which the men give a shout in unison. They then all 

 return along the joath to the public ring, where they again call 

 out principal water-holes, totems, etc., after which they dis2:)erse 

 to their several camps. 



Daily Perforviances at the Camp. — Some of the men and women 

 go out hunting and tishing, and searching for roots in different 

 directions every day, returning to the camp at various tunes, 



1 "The Burbuiig- of the Wiradthuri Tribes," Jourii. Aiithrop. Inst., xxv., 305. 



