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The warra?igoori!iga are ten or fifteen feet apart, one being on 

 the right, and one on the left of the spectator as he approaches 

 the ring. There are also two heaps of earth, called kallagallar- 

 ranga within the kangaragal, one of which is only a little way 

 from the entrance, and the other near the opposite or back wall. 

 If the track were continued through the ring it would pass over 

 both these heaps, which are about eighteen inches or two feet 

 high. The warrangooringa and the kallagallarranga form a 

 quadrilateral within the kangaragal ring. 



While the preparation of the wandarral ground is in progress, 

 the head man sends out messengers, whom he selects from among 

 his own people, a messenger being sent to each tribe which is 

 required to be present. Each messenger carries a bullroarer, 

 (dhooanhookd), and a number of kilts or "tails," and other 

 articles comprising the simple dress of an Australian savage. 

 He wears a painted head-band around his hair, in which are 

 inserted small bunches of long green grass. Two are generally 

 sent together, one of them being charged with the message, and 

 carrying the sacred emblems, whilst the other man merely keeps 

 him company. When a messenger arrives near the camp to 

 which he has been sent, he waits till the men have returned 

 from their day's hunting, and then approaches the single men's 

 quarters, close to which he and his companion sit down. Some 

 of the men then go to the messengers and bring them into the 

 camp. The head men of the tribe are then brought together on 

 the outskirts of the camp, and the messenger tells them where he 

 has come from, at the same time producing the bullroarer and 

 other emblems of authority, which are handed round and 

 inspected by all the old men present. The messenger remains 

 with this tribe until the time arrives to start for the appointed 

 meeting place. All the men, women and children are then 

 mustered up, and the journey commenced towards the wandarral 

 ground — dances and songs being indulged in at the various 

 camping places along the route. 



On Hearing the general encampment, which is usually in the 

 afternoon, a halt is made somewhere near water, and all the 

 people ox-nament their bodies with stripes and daubs of coloured 

 clays, in accordance witli the style customary in their tribe. The 

 messenger then goes on ahead to the ka?igaragal, where he finds 



